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Since the creation of the first Strong Signals web pages, I have received hundreds of e-mail letters offering congratulations and thanks for the information they contain and the effort I make to assist fellow hobbyists.

I do keep many of these unsolicited letters since they provide a "lift" for my spirits when I get discouraged and also help to remind me of all the wonderful individuals who consider themselves active scanner hobbyists. You are the true reason I try my best to return to the hobby just a little of what it has given to me.

I dedicate this page to all of those individuals who have taken the time to write me and express their feelings about what my web pages have meant to them. Your praises mean more than you will ever know.

I offer my heartfelt thanks to all of you who have supported me and the efforts of the Strong Signals web pages! Together we can continue to promote our great hobby and keep the enthusiasm strong. Long live scanning!


From: WM
Once again I must say Thank You for your Forums and Message Boards and all the time that you put into keeping it up and current.
From: David
Just a quick thank you for taking the effort to do a 'daily update'. It must be very time consuming, but heaven knows how many readers you have out here in the wide world. I am travelling in Europe right now, getting cold under grey skies and longing to return to Californian warmth, but Strong Signals is one of the few 'favourites' I look at on a daily basis.
From: RC in West Virginia
Love your site. What it does for the hobby about what the wheel did for civilization. Good job.
From: Ken
Keep up the great work! As a newbie I find your site an indespensible tool. Many of your followers are extremelly helpful. Thanks for making scanning as enjoyable as it's been.
From: JC in Missouri
You have a fantastic, well-researched site here. I am new to the scanning hobby and your site has been very useful. I am a school teacher and one of my fellow staff members is an avid scanner hobbist and I have grown interested in the last few months. You could say that I am a gadgit freak. I bought a new Radio on eBay and should be receiving it sometime this week. Based on your review, I think I will buying a couple new antennas real soon. I have spent the last week periodically reading the bulk of the information on your site. I have learned a lot. Keep up the good work!
From: ML in North Carolina
This is just a small message to say "Thank You" for providing such a wonderful resource to radio enthusiasts everywhere. I have to admit that I've been out of the hobby for quite some time (my last scanner that I bought was a new RS Pro-43. I was going through some old boxes a few weeks ago and ran across this scanner (along with my very first scanner, a RS Pro-2023). I took them out to see if they still worked, did some research on the web to get current frequencies, and started listening to it again. I was amazed as to the enjoyment this still brought me, and a flood of memories from scanning-sessions gone by came back in an instant. I found your website while looking for frequencies, and I was thrilled to find out that you are just right around the corner from where I live. It is like having a friend help me along to get back into the groove of the scanning hobby! I plan to purchase a new radio with actual trunking capabilities soon, and have been reading the many reviews that you provide on your website as reference material. Thank you for providing such material for all of us to share.
From: JW
I love your site, its one of the few that I check on a daily basis. Your hard work and dedication to the hobby of scanning has been greatly beneficial to myself in not only increasing my knowledge of radios but has allowed me to make excellent choices as to best spend my money on new equipment. For this, I am grateful. Keep up the good work!
From: JK
Just thought I'd say hello and thank you for providing so much useful stuff on Strong Signals. I recently became interested in scanning, and started by reading rec.radio.scanner for awhile, then visiting your site when someone recommended it. Wading through all the scanners on the market and deciding which one to start with was not an easy task, as you can imagine -- I read a number of product reviews on your site. After reading up on the subject -- the clincher being your review -- I opted for a BC245XLT, which I bought direct from Uniden. I'm happy to report that the scanner works as advertised -- it's very easy to program and seems to do a good job pulling in the signals I'm interested in around here. Anyhow, thanks again for putting together so much information.
From: ME
With regard to your latest review, it was well written, succinct, full of facts, unbiased, and enjoyable, to boot! Keep on keepin' on. Thank you for reviews and information that is educational as well as being timely and useful in my pursuit of a better rig. I have many good radios, and have only been hurt by one. I got it hot off the press, before anyone but myself could find out what a danger it really was to have and hold. Taught me, I'll tell you. From then on, it's sit, read, watch, learn, then buy.
From: FP
I just want to say how greatful I am that I found your page. Many thanks!
From: CC
Keep up all the GREAT WORK with your site. That said I just want to reiterate that you maintain an awesome resource for the hobby/profession. I check the site several times a day and find it really adds something to my personal enjoyment of the hobby. Thanks again for ALL the time & effort you put into it.
From: GS
My acquaintance with you is strictly through the website and Email, but that doesn't mean that I don't have a glimmer of an idea of how much work you do to maintain the site. I maintain a far less extensive site, and that's a ton of work. In addition to the valuable information that you provide, going to your site is just plain fun!
From: RC
Your website is still my favorite by far.
From: Anthony
Let me say I love your site. It's a gold mine of information and I refer to it often.
From: MT
I am going to flying to Tokyo on business next weekend. I have been looking at the [radio] and wondering how it might compare to other high-end scanners. I know you just received the radio, but do you have any initial impressions of it? I have come to trust your reviews and respect their objectivity so without some feedback I feel a little nervous. Lots of money for a product untested. Thanks and keep up the work on your excellent site!!!!
From: GG in Maryland
Just discovered your Strong Signals www site. Very nice job!! I am learning a lot.
From: CG in Georgia
I just thought I would take a second and thank you for taking all the time to write such lengthy, in-depth reviews. I appericate someone doing such a thing, they've helped me a great bit. Thanks again.
From: DJW
Although I don't often post much, I visit the website daily and when I'm through reading the latest posts and for sales, I go exploring the rest of the site reading up on one of my favorite hobbies. Just wanted to thank you for a terrific site again, and congratulate you on being listed in November issue of Popular Communications.
From: GP in South Aftica
Thanks for your absolutely marvelous resource. Living in South Africa I often feel somewhat isolated from "the real world" in the US. Your site has helped a great deal to bring some objectivity and a lot of very useful information to my location.
From: MT
Thanks very much for your excellent web site. I refer to it regularly and it has strongly influenced several of my radio purchases.
From: JLN
Thank you for the effort you have put into making Strong Signals a unique site, reference, and, especially, community on the web. It is clearly a labor of love.
From: GH
Just wanted to thank you for the excellent Icom R3 review. As with all of your reviews, it is highly informative and superbly written. I'm not in the market for this radio (I prefer the larger Yupiterus), but it's great to check out what some of the other manufacturers are doing. Keep up the great work.
From: MK in Florida
Your website is looking GREAT as usual. Thanks for making our hobby so enjoyable and interesting!!!!!!!!!!!
From: PC in California
Thanks for helping keep a spark in the hobby.
From: Tim
Just wanted to say thanks for a great website, I use it all the time and find the news very interesting and the reviews a key tool in purchasing a radio.
From: MD in California
Just a short note to thank you for your great web page. It has a wealth of information available for both the beginner and advanced radio listener.
From: Fred
Let me say thank you for the best scanner site on the internet. You bring so much joy and good infornation to radio and scanner fans. Like me there are many many more people who enjoy your site and think the world of you and understand how much time and effort you put into it.
From: TL
Keep the "BEST" Radio Scanner site going!
From: Anonymous
I really enjoy your website it is the best on the internet for radio nuts like me. I have been in the radio hobby for 20 plus years. Keep up the fantastic info on your website. I believe it inspires people to keep involved with this great hobby. I know it inspires me big time.
From: DM
Just wanted to say thank you for the great website. I'm here everyday at least once. I can tell you devote a tremendous amount of time to it and I know from experience that it is sometimes a thankless job. Keep up the good work.
From: BG in Kentucky
Many thanks my friend. I'll reccomend your site to anyone!
From: TB in Indiana
Thanks, as always, for your hard work which benefits so many of us.
From: LG in Georgia
This is no Earth shaker but You do have the BEST Scanner Website on the NET! Congratulations!
From: Brian
I got to say you have a great web page. I go to it first thing every time I sign on to see what's new
From: RG in New York
I just wanted to send my compliments. You've got a great site.
From: Steve
Thanks for taking the time and effort to keep us all up to date on the hobby with your site!
From: BC
You run a first class web site, that's better than any I've ever seen before!
From: ERV in Canada
I would like to extend my congrats for an excellent website. I have perused Strong Signals with great interest and have learned a lot! Keep up the good work!! Thank you for sharing your time and expertise so willingly.
From: AB
You delivered another very thorough, non-biased review and saved me some bucks.
From: JM
Haven't written to you in a while. I see the site is still the best scanner reference on the Web (or anywhere for that matter)!! Keep up the good work.
From: GS in Oklahoma
I want to thank you for your wonderful and truly informative website. I can't tell you how great your website is and how much fun it is to visit. You make the internet FUN!
From: FT
Wow, you have created a wonderful site!! So many resources available in one place. THANK YOU.
From: LS
I must say that you have the most comprehensive site regarding radio electronics I've run across yet! Well done!
From: TE in California
Thank you so very, very much for your efforts on the Strong Signals page. My wife and I use information from your page frequently to keep up on latest issues. Great Job!
From: Anonymous in Australia
Thanks again Rich for your services to scanning and the radio hobby. There are no other web pages that have so much that I have seen anywhere in the world.
From: DM
I want to thank you for offering such a helpful and infomative web site. It is very well put together and always a pleasure to go to. I also want to thank you for, through the site, introducing me to [person] at [dealer]. I recently placed an order with him and the whole process, from start to finish, could not have gone any smoother. I am, after sending this e-mail, placing another order with him. It is, especially in this day and age, really great to be able to do business with someone who you can depend on to actually "deliver the goods".
From: MC
Just would like to say you have an EXCELLENT website. I will even go as far to say the best scanner website on the net. I'm 16 and just got into scanners over the past few months. I just hope one day i can have the amount of receivers that you have. You're a really cool guy!!
From: BS
This is just to say how much I enjoy your brilliant Strong Signals message boards site. Appreciated!
From: WM
Thank You for the posting and the work that you go to to maintain your sites. I get a lot of enjoyment from them. I'm 71 years old and have been in the radio and scanner hobby many-many years and am still active with it. Thanks for your time and please keep up the good work that you are doing. I know that it has to take a tremendous amount of time.
From: KS
Thanks for your amazingly informative website. It's amazingly deep with info.
From: AJR
You still have the greatest scanner site on the net. Keep it up!
From: LW
Absolutely SUPERB review ! I was at first considering buying this particular radio, but am now VERY glad I did not. Your review was totally INVALUABLE in my decision, and a "hands-on" review is the best measure of a new radio. THANK YOU for saving me a lot of grief, not to mention owning a radio which would have set me back a few hundred bucks and, with which I am SURE I'd not have been happy. Your honesty in reviewing the radios on this site and your unbiased objectivity make these reviews something the patrons of STRONG SIGNALS can rely on to help in making decisions to buy (or NOT buy) a newly-introduced radio. Thanks Again and keep up the good work . Your site "ROCKS" !!!!!
From: CS
I would like to thank you for creating such a great website, and the weird thing is you're not doing it for personal gain, which is not common these days, so thanks on behalf of every person that ever visited your site, Thank You!
From: MA
I think you have a great web site and value your opinion greatly on scanner products. Thank you for your time and efforts in helping me.
From: SW in Florida
I just want to tell you I love your site. It has definitely been very helpful.
From: RH
As always, great site, keep up the good work! I visit at least 2 or 3 times a day.
From: DL
Thanks again for all of your wonderful contributions to the monitoring hobby!
From: SC
Thank you very much for your recommendation and for providing an excellent site for scanner enthusiasts.
From: JB
Great site! I really like it and thanks for all the great reviews.
From: JL
As a scanner enthusiast wanna-be, I'd like to express my sincere thanks and hearty congratulations on putting together such an informative and comprehensive website. I have enjoyed many visits here over the past several weeks and, while I have mostly skipped around in a less than logical order, I know that when I'm in a more disciplined mindset - all the answers to the questions I don't yet know enough to ask are right here.
From: RLC in Florida
I think your site is a tremendous asset to the hobby, and I commend you for the major effort it is to keep it going.
From: JW
I am a long-time visitor to your site. I can't say enough about it!
From: Mark
Thanks for a great site. I visit most days and find your reviews most interesting and accurate.I am an active SWL and scanner user and also enjoy your message board, to keep up to date. I will keep it short but just thought I would let you know how much the radio users in the U.K. enjoy your site,
From: RL in Massachussettes
Very impressive reviews you have on the Strong Signals website. Thanks for the effort you put in to make them available.
From: GC
Just wanted to let you know I found your site extremely helpful!
From: TM in Texas
I appreciate your great web site! Keep up the good work.
From: Bob
Just a quick note to thank you for your great site...After many months of use I felt that a thanks was in order...I have used the reviews many times and have sold or traded equipment 3 or 4 times and have always had a good experience and in all cases have called the person involved and made a good "hobby friend"...having been involved in this hobby, scanning, shortwave and ham since the early 70s I've seen much evolve and your site definitely brings out the good and positive in it.
From: RA
Thanks for a fantastic site!
From: JJ
Keep up the good work. You're the best!
From: CS
Keep up the good work on the best scanner site on the web!
From: AB in Italy
I read your web pages since many years, and Strong Signals is without doubt the best scanner page of the web!
From: DS
Thanks for providing a TON of info for us scanning enthusiasts. Your efforts are much appreciated!!
From: WRS
I've really enjoyed your website for the longest time and would like to thank you for the great contribution to the hobby you have made. Well done!
From: JH in California
I've spend several hours today combing through countless sites looking for the right scanner to buy. I have to say, your reviews are absolutely amazing. Their length, scope and detail are unrivaled. Keep up the good work.
From: Thomas in Norway
I think your site is the best site regarding scanner info!
From: WW in North Carolina
I have forwarded you web pages to several friends and they are also in total awe of what you have accomplished. Thanks for all the great work and I hope you continue with it as long as you enjoy.
From: MT in Texas
I have sent you mail before when I was looking at purchasing a scanner (not sure if you remember or not). Regardless, I wanted to again congratulate you on an excellent site. It just keeps getting better and better!!
From: SAC
I was quite honestly suprised the other day when I viewed your home page. I had always read your message board, and your radio reviews, but had never visited your home page. I was suprised to find that you are much younger than I thought from reading your writings. I don't mean this as a slam, on the contrary, you are much wiser than your years. You are very articulate and express yourself very well. I tune in everyday to your website to see what's new. I just wanted to give you a little praise for all your hard work. IMO, it certainly is deserved. I gave my students your website address, and am doing my best to turn them into radio junkies.
From: RR
Just a not of appreciation for all the information about scanners,especially your experienced opinions as to specific models and where to buy them. As a amateur I am willing to invest a couple hundred dollars in what may become a lifelong "hobby". Finding your site was a godsend!!
From: MG
I'm on your web site all of the time. I find it the most informative, useful scanner/monitoring site on the net. Thanks very much for going through all of the trouble and expense to keep it going!
From: PJ
Your web site continues to be excellent. Thanks for the great service you are providing.
From: CK
Love the site. A GREAT resource !!
From: ST
Your website is absolutely fantastic! It is my browser's default webpage and it is the first thing I read every day.
From: JT in Canada
Still after all I have seen, I think your page is the best. Good job!
From: DC in England
Keep up the excellent work on the site.
From: DT
Thank you for such informative website (and that is an understatement). I take pleasure in reading your detailed comments and reviews
From: LB
Your dedication to our hobby is without parallel. Thank you for your efforts.
From: BMR
Congratulations on a great site - it's really a great thing for the scanning/radio hobby.
From: TT
I adore your website as it is wonderful for the latest scanner news and reviews.
From: NF in Denmark
Thanx for the G R E A T pages. My last 2 purchases has been on your recomendations.
From: RST in Alabama
As they say in rural Alabama (where I am a part of), a blind hog stumbles on an acorn occasionally, and I have just done that on days worth of reading and understanding. What a welcome addition to this madness.
From: BJ
You have the best scanner radio site hands down.
From: TW
Thanks for the good review. I was going to plunk down the bucks for this unit, but I needed an objective perspective from someone in the know. Thanks for saving me from buying a boat anchor and I do enjoy your site. Keep tellin' it like it is!!!
From: DP
Keep up the good work on the most informative scanner site I have seen!
From: LH
I enjoy visiting your web site for information on the scanning hobby and finally thank you for providing such a wonderful web site for the scanning hobby.
From: PJW
I'm a great admirer of your work. Keep it up for us "Scannerists"!
From: JC
I didn't expect to hear from the head honcho himself. Thank you much for the quick response! Guess I will have to save my pocket change and buy an AR8000 (man my wife is gonna kill me if I do that!) Again, thanks much and by far you have the best radio web page on the Internet!
From: SH
I have purchased all my scanners on your reviews: Yupi MVT-9000 (plus, I just ordered the latest from Pete at Bandercom with all modifications), Alinco DJ-X10 (extremely rugged), Uniden's 245, and the Radio Shack 92. The Optocom will be ordered today. I appreciate you having the interest that you have. Strong Signals has made my hobby much more fun and efficient.
From: Mark
Thanks again and keep up the great work. You are a great guy. I bet you get way too much e-mail so I will try to leave you alone for a few years.
From: JM
Just a note to say thanks for such a great site. Keep up the good job. Looking forward to my next visit.
From: Bert in Texas
I spent two weekends learning as much as I could about scanners and radio frequencies. I'm glad you have Strong Signals up. It has been a fantastic "jumping-off-point" for my scanning interests. Thanks for the time you put into the site!
From: NM
I had found your rating system and personal choices sections on your web page which was also very helpful. I would like to add that of the many, many sites I spent visiting, I found yours to be the most helpful, informative, interesting and dedicated. In the future I will always strongly recommend my friends or newcomers, to this hobby, to visit your site and to bookmark.
From: SS in Canada
I would like to congradulate you for your TOP quality site. It is now my reference in term of technical and review questions.
From: SG
Thanks for your site, your enthusiasm about the hobby, and taking the time to write back.
From: JM
Your website is FANTASTIC!
From: Chris in Washington
Your site has given me countless amounts of usefull information!! I feel I owe you a great graditude for all you time and effort. THANK YOU!!!
From: TB
You don't know what it does for my radio self esteem hearing back from you as I have a deep found respect and admiration for the work that you do for our hobby. I only dream of what it is that you have accomplished! Please know that you're one of my favorite pages to go to first when i make my rounds on the net. Keep up the great work!
From: Jerry
You have a great board. I no longer read some of the ones I used to. Yours beats them all. Keep up the great work.
From: K in Japan
Keep up the excellent job your doing on the #1 Radio Scanner site on the net!
From: DI
Let me thank you for a great website. I check it several times daily - it's a great resource, and a lot of fun.
From: AR
I have only heard great praise about your website, which I enjoy, and your contributions to the scanner hobby.
From: LB
As always, thank you for the wonderful never ending job you do to support our hobby. By the way, many months ago I did wind up purchasing a Yupp MkII based on yours and others recommendation. I have been delighted with it. It truly does an admirable job. Once again, thanks for all you do.
From: SG in Georgia
I just wanted to drop you a note to say "Thanks" for your web site. I found it while I was at work looking for antenna information on a project that I am leading. Needless to say, your site was not all "work-related" but I was impressed so much that I decided to keep reading. I was knocked-out by the amount of information that you had developed and shared on the web. The thing that really hooked me, though, was how much fun you seem to be having. In fact, I was impressed so much that I decided to get a receiver and see what this is all about. After reading all of your reviews (which are extremely complete and informative), I was able to make an informed decision and picked up an Icom IC-R10-05 from Lentini Communications. I have been hooked from the time I first turned the R10 on and am really enjoying myself. Now, I am trying to decide between getting an IC-R2 or waiting for the IC-R3 or AOR 8200 II. Thanks for opening my eyes up to a new hobby.
From: JL
Let me join the chorus of the thousands of scanner users that enjoy your site. It is first class with out a doubt. I have benefited from the info that it freely imparts and that has saved me much time and money. (my wife would say it cost her money)! Thanks for all you do.
From: TK
I really like your web site. I bought my R2 last year based on your reviews and am VERY happy with it. I probably should have waited for your review of the BC890 before I bought it too. Oh well. Receive on it is great, just TOO great.
From: JP
I have chatted on-line with a lot of very helpful people that I have meant through your board, a lot of them feel the same way I do and just read most of the time but don't post questions. I'm glad that you as the owner are always a gentlemen. Thanks for making the hobby more interesting for me.
From: RR
I must once again commend you on your awesome page!!! This is the most comprehensive, well thought out page in any field! You are a treasure of the scanning community!
From: RC in Spain
Your page is marvelous for begginers and, for it, I'm going to start in this interesting (but complex) world.
From: SL
Just wanted to say 'thanks' for your effort in putting together our hobby's premier site. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the new Icom IC-R3. Also, thanks for your list of favorite dealers - they've come through like a champ. Keep up the good work!
From: RK
You are really doing a great service for the scanner industry and the public.
From: MC
Thanks Rich, and keep up the good work. Your site shows us all how it should be done.
From: DK in New Jersey
As a fairly regular visitor to your site, I'm pleased to note that you've read the 1 million hits mark! Congratulation, and thanks again for providing this valuable resource to the scanning community.
From: JH
I'd like to compliment you on your For Sale Board. For the first time ever I placed a for sale ad there last night and in less than 24 hours the unit had been sold. That is certainly one of the greatest computer experiences I have ever had via computer. Thanks for supplying the space and providing such a great site as Strong Signals, I'm sure it will continue to get better as time passes.
From: TV
Thank you for your wonderfull site and please keep up the great work. You are the ambassador for our hobby! I just might name my next scanner after you!
From: Jack
The site gets better and better. Thanx for your efforts for the scanner hobbyist.
From: PL in South Africa
Great site, Rich. I have learned a lot from you. Thanks.
From: KP
I really like your web site! It has become one of my daily sites that I go to, plus I end up checking it for links and other things. Thank you.
From: JI in Utah
First let me say that I love your page! (I have your page as my starting page) I am amazed with the wealth of information contained in these pages. It is just staggering. I have found information on just about anything I could ever think of, which is useful since I am new to the scanning hobby. (approx. 6 months and already own 5 radios) Thanks in advance for your help, and keep up the good work!
From: D in Australia
I would like to thank you for so much effort that you put into Strong Signals. I visit the site regularly and recently wrote you regarding the Yupiteru 9000. Your reply helped me immensely. A local radio shop was having a close out sale and they had a 9000 for dirt cheap but it did not have a manual. As a Yupiteru 7100 owner I didn't think that the lack of a manual mattered much, until I tried to program and set up the scanner; not as easy as it seemed. Thanks to your site, I remembered that you had a Yupiteru 9000 owner's manual for download. Well after that, it was a piece of cake! The extra features of the 9000 are a knockout. Anyhow Rich I wanted to let you know how grateful I am to you for your support for scanning and the time and effort that you put into your pages for people like myself,feeling their way and constantly learning about the wonderful world of radio.I agree with your review,the Yupi 9000 is just about the best scanner made (the 7100 is now about a close second)
From: BA
Let me say that your website is just the greatest collection of scanner reference materials to be found on the net. I'm always surfing the site checking it out. Thanks and keep up the great website.
From: NS
I am new to scanning and have found your site to be very useful. Thanks for all the work in keeping this site up.
From: JC
I can't imagine where you get the time to keep such a comprehensive site so up-to-date. I, for one, greatly appreciate your effort. Thanks again and keep up the great job!
From: John in Florida
Thanks for all the info! You're the MAN!
From: JM in Florida
Thanks for a great site. We purchased an Optocom for our store that we love. Your review helped tremendously in our decision. We upgraded to Scan Star Deluxe also. We have purchased many accessories as well, and for what it is worth I don't make any final purchasing decisions until I consult your site.
From: JP
Thanks for the Sony info! I just ordered one and really appreciate the information!! Another reason why Strong Signals is so important to the listening hobby!!!
From: KBH
You have one of the single most in depth pages on any topic that I've ever seen!
From: SC
I have watched your site for a number of years, and am impressed by both the site, and by your reviews of various radios, antennas, etc.
From: LW in Ohio
Your website has given me a LOT of entertainment and news, and I want to thank you on behalf of all hobbyists for providing an honest, accurate source of news for us. Your truthful objectivity is something rare in this day and age, and I enjoy coming to the site whenever I can.
From: SD
Keep up the good work, I love your Web page.
From: WN in Holland
I have been looking for sensible information concerning small pocketscanners (Welz / Ic-R2 / Trident / Yeasu), and have found it at your site! Great! Experienced users talking, and no commercial blahblah. I don't understand all that is said because I am a beginner, but the information still is very usefull. In Europe we have almost all the models availeable you have, but it seems to be a bigger hobby in the USA. And there is almost no independent site that has the ability to compare models. The Dutch (Holland) sites concerning scanners almost all mention your site. Thanks again, I've been reading your reviews all night (4:40 AM) !!!
From: JK in North Carolina
Still the best and most useful site anywhere!
From: TW in Georgia
I truly enjoy and appreciate the StrongSignals site. Thanks for taking the time and effort to provide an on-line "home" for us scanner enthusiasts.
From: JD
I think your web site is the most informative on the web. Keep up the good work!
From: LV
You sure have a great web site and a lot of info for everyone right here on the message boards.
From: Mark
A word of serious thanks... your site led to a reawakening of long dormant interests, first in scanning, then in shortwave DXing, and now finally I'm on the air with my newly acquired amateur license!
From: MR
I LOVE your site. It is the greatest!
From: TG
A lot of us have come to have a tremendous appreciation for your site.
From: Andrew
Just a quick note to say the website is great!! I cant go a day without checking in. Keep up the great work and good luck !!
From: BS in Arizona
Let me say as I always do when I write that your site is incredible. There is no equal to what you produce each and every day. I don't know how you spare the time, but I am glad you do.
From: Ray
Thank you for your time and keep up the great work! I visit you site almost daily to keep up on all the latest scanner news...
From: GS in England
I'd like to say how much I appreciate your web-site, there is nothing like it in the UK. It has been a great help to me in the short time since I found it, for that, thank you.
From: GM in Alaska
Your wedsite is an awesome source of scanner information and related topics. The best by far compared to the others I've visited. Keep up the good work, and thanks for responding to my questions when I e-mail you.
From: BP
Thanks for the site. I have made extensive use of it particularly the software listings.
From: EAQ in Argentina
I see your web site frequently and to my way of seeing is the best in the world in reference to the scanners.
From: Randy in Canada
I have been a avid follower of your site and enjoy it and the message boards a immensely.
From: KF
I want to thank you again for your web site. The information is so valuable. I used your ranking list to expand on my scanning equipment. I upgraded my PRO-2035 with an OS-535 board and bought Probe 5.0. This is a great combination. There is a lot to learn using Probe and its great to have the expanded listening with the OS535. I thought at first it was a real negative not using a Windows program. This is not true. Wow, what a great program. I also bought a BC245XLT, PRO-26 and PRO-92. As you know they are all different. Its is great using them. I also used your recommendation and bought a Watson W889 and have a RD78 on order. The W889 works great. I can control the PRO-2035/OS535 using Probe 5.0 on COM1, surf the net on COM2, control the BC245XLT using WinScan or ScanCat Gold on COM3 and download or upload the PRO-92 using the beta version GRE Scanner Data Manager on COM4. Its like being a little kid in a candy store. I'm having a blast learning how everything works.
From: GR in England
I am a newcomer to scanning and have gained lots of really useful information from your site. It must be the No.1 site for scanner enthusiasts in the World! Superb!
From: Ken
Rich, I have been scanning since the mid seventies and I thought I knew a lot about scanning but after reading Strong Signals I found out that I am really just a novice, I have learned more from your web site than I have in the past several years.Thank You for giving me a reality check. The only complaint I have is you got more radios than I have and it makes me want to go out and blow my bank account on more radios you are a very lucky man Rich Wells I envy you!
From: JA
I LOVE the web page. GREAT JOB! I just got my own Yaesu VR-500 and it is the best handheld receiver I have bought. Of course I have a Uniden Sportcat to compare it to, and I bought it and my Icom R2 because of your review here! Thanks and keep up the GREAT work!
From: KO in Norway
I am very glad that you still make a great effort to maintain and upgrade your fine resource. It really saves a lot of trouble to have a well-designed and professional site to turn to for reference ... I like your new design ,it is very clean and orderly for a site this size. It is still easy to find what you look for ,and your search-engine from within the site works just beatifully!
From: JMB in Illinois
You have an excellent web site, you leave no stone unturned. If it weren't for you I would never have discovered Bandercom and Pete Peltola. He gave me a great deal on the Bearcat UBC9000XLT. I cannot count how many times I return to your web site for news & enlightment!
From: PB in Kansas
I just wanted to say Thank You for putting in so much work to create a great FAQ. I'm looking to buy my first "real" scanner and your pages helped immensely. I can tell you put a lot of work in, so I wanted to write and let you know. I just hope you have time to actually use your scanner(s) after all that web design!
From: JW in New York
Let me start by saying that your website is by far the best radio site I've seen on the web. I check it almost daily for updates and enjoy your reviews of new equipment on articles on radio topics. Keep up the good work on the site!
From: EB in North Carolina
I'm really having a great time at you Strongsignals Website. Keep up the good work with your site. One more note. I previously used to be a regular Compuserve Hamnet member but have since switched ISP's and was really encouraged when I discovered your goldmine!
From: KO
Rich there is more info on your site than on the manufacturer's web site, but yours is written by a user so it means more. I have made two purchases now because of your site. You the top man Rich :-) Thank you for continuing to provide this service to the hobby.
From: DS
Your page is the best scanner web site on the net. I visit it several times a day, always find something new. Keep up the good work.
From: BC
I just read your review of the ICOM IC-R2 scanner. Many thanks for the service you have done for the scanning community. I'm a news photographer and a fairly experienced scanner hound, and I'm thinking of getting an IC-R2 to take the place of my clunky Radio Shack.
From: CM in England
I wanted to let you know what an excellent site you've created. I'm in the process of buying my first scanner. Here in the UK there's nothing comes close to the breadth of information your site covers. There's a fair bit of info on frequency allocations but hardware reviews are almost non-existent. Many thanks for all your efforts.
From: EW in Minnesota
I would like to let you know how much hundreds of us appreciate the hard work and dedication that you put into your web page and to the hobby in general. Your reviews are excellent and very straight-forward, showing that you have high credibility. Thanks once again for all that you are doing. I know that you have wonderful life outside of the radio hobby, but I hope that time and resources will permit you to dedicate time to the hobby and your web pages for many years to come!
From: CM in Canada
I've been a long time visitor to you site, and I think it's the best out there. Anyways, thank you for all of your good work.
From: JW in Finland
I have visited your Web site several times and have found a lot a of useful information!
From: MW in Oklahoma
Just wanted to compliment you on one of the best scanning pages I've seen. I know these take alot of work to put together and keep updated. Everything is layed out just great! I thank you for providing this site for us scanner listeners. Keep up the great page!!
From: DK
I wanted to just drop you a quick note to let you know that I'm yet another person who thinks that the info that you provide is a major asset to the scanning community in general. The information on your site has been a great help in the past and I know it will continue to be so in the future.
From: BH
I am new to scanning and have found that this website is extremely helpful. Thanks again for all the hard work and great info.
From: CB
Many thanks. Your efforts ARE appreciated!
From: JK in Wisconsin
Just thought that I would tell you that your website is great. I really like your webpage, and I know how much work goes into putting one up, and constantly updating it like you do. Again, thanks for the work you do for the monitoring Community..
From: ME
Your site is one of the best out there in any subject. Keep up the great work, it is a great resource for 99% of us.
From: KLF
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts. I look at your site every day for tips and the latest news. Its a great the site because it is do dynamic. It is people like you that make a difference. Again, thanks and keep up the great work.
From: DS
Thanks for an informative, objective and enjoyable website.
From: Anonymous
I've looked high and low for useful info on scanning and your site stands out high and above anything else I have found. I'm hooked. Thanks for putting so much into a fantastic site.
From: Bill
I feel you do a wonderful job of reviewing scanners and providing very useful information to people in the hobby!!! Without trying to sound to negative, those who complain must not realize that without sites like yours the only information that would be available is from the scanners builder! You know how impartial that can be.... Keep up the good work!!!
From: HS in California
When I need to know something about scanners I go to your site first. When someone new to the hobby asks about web sites I give them your URL. You have done a lot to help me enjoy my scanning hobby. Please keep up the good work.
From: JB in North Carolina
I think you know that 99.999999999999% of the folks who ever check in here have nothing but respect and appreciation for the work you do. I check in every day. I also come here first before buying ANY scanner or accessory.
From: RL
Through all the online nonsense spewed about in the scanning community over the years, you've remained a class act. Your website and reviews speak for themselves. You have contributed a great deal to this hobby, I greatly appreciate the time and effort you put into it, and I'm certainly not alone. Keep up the outstanding work!
From: VW
You have the best scanner website bar none.
From: JA
You do a great job of reviewing radios and I use your page when I want a new radio or just to see how one worked out for you. Your site does well for promoting the good ones and keeping us away from the bad ones. Keep up the great work.
From: William
I know you put alot of work into this like every thing else you do. You are a credit to the monitoring community. You are peerless.
From: FH in New Jersey
Just keep up the good work and keep turning out good reviews, I don't want to buy a lemon.
From: ES
I think anyone who has visited your site recognizes your contribution and appreciates the enormous amount of time you contribute to it (us!) -- even if, like me, they've never taken the opportunity to say so before. People, like yourself, who give so much of their own time (or rather, find that special synergy that lets them meld personal interests and service to a wider community) have always been what makes up the very best of cyberspace. Thanks for your efforts.
From: EB
I also wanted to say "THANKS" for a great site. I know that having a web site like yours can be a lot of work, and I just wanted to let you know that you are appreciated for the work that you do.
From: AG in England
I am still a regular visitor to your most excellent site. The advice and sheer volume of information for FREE is terrific. You have many friends here in the UK.
From: BN
It is not often that one can find decent, unbiased information regarding the equipment and software used in the radio monitoring hobby. In fact, in my area there is no "brick and mortar" retailer where I can go to try out, look at, or otheerwise check out equipment (other than Radio Shack), so I have relied strongly on your site as a source of information. In addition most radios are priced far beyond the means of most hobbysits to "buy then try" the various offerings available. Your site has prevented me from wasting a lot of hard earned money on radios with features I did not need, or were not as advertised, or did not fit my monitoring style and reception capabilities. Strong Signals has helped me to narrow down my choices to the right radio for me, price and featurewise, rather than buying the radio that aparticlar manufacturer would have me believe is the "right radio". I have found your reviews to be fair, unbiased, and honest. I don't always agree with some of your assessments, but as a leaving, breathing, reasonably intelligent American I understand that in the end it us up to ME to decide. With the exception of Grove/Monitoring Times I have found no other site with the knowledge and information that you provide, and provide well. Anyway, keep up the good work, so that those of us who actually have a genuine interest in this hobby, and desire to protect our legal right to enjoy our hobby have a quality site to turn to when we need accurate information.
From: Desi
Your site is, in my opinion, the most thorough and complete site I have found to date. Thanks for maintaining it.
From: KS
I never thought that this site could get any better, but Rich, you proved me wrong!!! WHat a terrific site for the scanning hobbiest!!! Hey Rich, from me to you, THANK YOU for everything that you have done to help everyone and to promote this hobby. You should be proud of yourself!!! This is, without a doubt, THE BEST scanner site on the web. Again Rich, thanks!
From: HG
Thanks to your efforts and your website I have gone from a passive scanning hobbiest to an active one. I purchased a 245XLT in July after not being able to track our local EDACS system for several years. Well, to make a long story short, I now am controlling the scanner via software, I check your trunking page daily and have learned so much from you and all of the great posters. Scanning now has become an activity for me rather than just passive listening as it was before. Thank you for the great website.
From: DL
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From: PM in Arizona
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From: JS
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From: Jay
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From: SL
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From: MB
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From: SW
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From: BH
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From: CL
I really appreciate your efforts in the FAQ section. Answered a lot of questions, some I had not even got up to to ask. I want to be short, and just say thanks. Very, very good site.
From: Anonymous
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From: TT
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From: BT in California
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From: Aaron in China
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From: DS
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From: Doug
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From: JMH in Illinois
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From: Dennis in Virginia
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From: BS
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From: SK in Arizona
I dig this site. I set it up as my start up page. I visit it everyday several times a day. It is now kinda like the morning paper to me now. I have been using your scanner reviews and have done alot of research on my next scanner. I love the fact that if I have any questions I can go to your site and pretty much expect them to be answered. You may get tired of seeing my name on postings an E-Mail. I plan on using the site alot! Thanks for the great work!
From: DK
You have the most incredible, most complete, scanner database I ever ran across. Thanks for a terrific job. It answered all my questions!
From: JD in Florida
I'd like you know your site has provided me with hours of enjoyment, for which I'm very grateful. Being confined to bed and constantly in pain, I'm always on the lookout for something to keep my mind occupied and help pass the time. You've certainly assisted by providing such a fascinating site (and I don't use the term 'fascinating' lightly). I'm sure it occupies a good deal of your time and energy -- must be a labor of love. I'd also like to compliment your writing style; very conversational, just the right amount of technical depth, and excellent flow. Makes for great reading! Thanks so much Rich, and keep up the good job. Your efforts are really appreciated on this end!
From: KS
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From: MS in Nebraska
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From: BS
I wanted to say that as a scanning newbie, I have found your web site to be an invaluable information resource. In addition, the quality of how it is put together is quite good, especially for a hobby site (coming from a software engineer, this is high praise ;-)). Anyway, thanks for a great effort, and keep up the good work!
From: PF
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From: MB in Italy
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From: DM in Australia
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From: CM in Colorado
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From: DB in Texas
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From: DT in Canada
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From: LH in North Carolina
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From: JS in Massachussettes
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From: JB
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From: TR
Thank you for your excellent web site and the unbiased information you provide. I cannot express how much it has helped me with information and updates.
From: LAD in Georgia
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From: LM in Pennsylvania
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From: JC in Ohio
As we move into the next Millennium I wanted to again thank you for maintaining such a wonderful web site. It has greatly enhanced my interest and knowledge in scanning and I hope you continue on with the site for many years to come.
From: SH
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From: FH
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From: BT
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From: RR
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From: CP
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From: SJ
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From: BM in Ireland
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From: FB
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From: RP
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From: KR in Texas
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From: BS
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From: SC
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From: GA in England
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From: MI
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From: SWL in Greenland
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From: JM in South Carolina
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From: CJM
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From: Wilbur
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From: AS
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From: NDL
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From: Steve in England
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From: BG in Massachusettes
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From: BP
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From: DC in Hawaii
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From: JF
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From: SP
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From: GM
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From: DJ
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From: Jimmy
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From: DK in North Carolina
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From: RS
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From: MS in Wisconsin
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From: Tom in Michigan
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From: SE
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From: JW
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From: FJ in Connecticut
I would like to offer my heart-fealt thanks for offering your fellow scannists with the most informative, organized, get to the point, useful websites ive ever ran across! I subscribe to Monitoring times, Popular Communications, and occasionally pick up issues of the U.K mags for scanning and i must say that Strong Signals is and always will be number one in my book! The enormous amount of Real World information that you offer us hobbyists is nothing short of Breathtaking when i take into consideration the amount of time you must devote to your website and us hobbyists. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
From: LG
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From: CA
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From: GM
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From: BH
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From: MT in Texas
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From: PS
This note merely is to thank you for your very informative review of the ICOM IC R2. I am new to scanning--this is my first radio--and your review helped me decide which radio to purchase and it has helped get through what I find to be a maddeningly difficult operations manual. Thanks for your very informative website.
From: JF
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From: CP in Washington
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From: MM in Texas
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From: PR in Canada
WOW, what a page, I love it. Just discovered it through a ham radio supplier's page in Canada.
From: JC in Texas
Thanks for putting together such a comprehensive site. I am new to scanning (about a year or so and only one scanner, so far), and your site has answered many questions for me. I appreciate all of the time invested to post all of the reviews and information, and just wanted you to know it's a real help for those of us not yet at the "seen it all" stage. Keep up the good work!
From: DL in Missouri
Let me say thanks for the great page. This is buy far the best scanner page on the web. Well done.
From: Anonymous
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From: KS
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From: TS
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From: RA in Kansas
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From: SL in England
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From: Harry
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From: DC
Thanks for all your info; I think you're helping me not make about 90% of the standard tier of rookie mistakes.
From: JZ
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From: GN
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From: RS
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From: Randy
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From: CH
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From: AN
Just wanted to add my congratulations on your upcoming marriage - and congratulations, too, on being astute enough to pick a wife who understands that you are an absolutely critical resource to the scanning hobby!
From: BK
I enjoy your whole site a great deal. (I'm one of those people that always sends new people in the alt.radio.scanner and rec.radio.scanner News groups to your site to get answers to their questions.) So a quick thank you for the countless hours that have gone into your site.
From: LH
I would like to compliment you on your web site, I don't know anyone who updates their web site as often as you. Keep up the good work.
From: Joseph
I have been pointing many "newbies" to your site for some time. I would just like to let you know that you have made my hobby that much more enriching as I listen to the legal transmissions and have prevented it from becoming an obsession by providing all the information that you do and not requiring me to do all the research on my own. You and I both realize how this "Hobby" becomes a "Passion." Thank you again for all of the time and effort you have given for people you do not even know and may never meet.
From: JN in Kentucky
I know you must be a busy guy with such a great site. I just wanted to say thanks for a new hobby. I saw my first NASCAR race and used equiptment I learned about from your site. I purchased the goods from dealers I learned about from your site. Got some good deals too. The only problem is I'm not just listening to races. You have educated me on so many neat products and things to listen to and learn about. I just wanted to say thanks for a new hobby and stress relief in a much too busy world.
From: KT
Congratulations again on such a well maintained and professional site dedicated to scanning! Your efforts are well respected by many and the envy of others!
From: LG
Just wanted to take time to thank you for all your effort keeping your page updated, and for the reviews you do.
From: DD in Colorado
I must say I enjoy your site greatly.
From: HS
Thanks you your usual in-depth report on the Pro-92. You did more in 2 days than I would have in 2 months. Your work is appreciated very much.
From: EW in Minnesota
I read your review last night and must say that the time and effort you put into putting the radio through its paces and the writing of the review itself is quite impressive! I hope that most of the people that read your review realize the time and personal sacrifices you make for these reviews. Thank you!
From: LS in Florida
Love the site...keep up the good work!
From: Anonymous in Washington
This is a great site. You do an outstanding job!!!! You post good info and helpful tips and troubleshooting
From: SM
This is to acknowledge your excellent website and all the hard work that has obviously gone into it. The depth and amount of material presented is simply astounding. I would have to rate the site very high on a short list top ten list of all the websites if not number 1. Your precise outstanding, reviews serve to save the reader much in the way of time and misspent money.
From: AV in Italy
I am pretty amazed by the HUGE amount of informations on your web pages! And links, opinions, reviews...but overall, the INCREDIBLE amount of time spent on building up the site and fostering it with new updates! I have been reading it for a year now, prior to buying a new radio, or simply to keep up-to-date, or for plain curiosity. So this mine is just to say THANK YOU for all that you gave me, for all those informations that usually a dealer doesn't know (or simply does not have the time to give..). Once again, thank you. I really enjoy reading your pages!
From: SD
Wow - what an AMAZING website you've created! Incredible. I've never seen such a compilation of useful info on scanners ANYWHERE. I was reading reviews LATE last night until my wife growled at me to get to bed... but I still stuck around. She thinks I'm mad. Thanks for your help, and please keep up the wonderful and incredibly-useful work on the web site!
From: David
There is no better site on the Web than this to inform and enlighten new and longtime SWL's of all shapes and sizes. We users appreciate what you have created Rich.
From: LD
And, as always, I enjoy your web page. I click on it at least twice a week.
From: JM
I would just like to say thanks for all of your time and work that goes into your Strong Signals webpage.
From: RM
1 billion thanks for your quick reply...you are an asset to the net and scanning world. I was surfing your sight in more detail tonight and all I have to say is...when do you sleep???
From: John in New York
Just wanted to congratulate you on this fine site. Keep up the good work. I have been inactive for some time now both in scanning and ham radio, but i have to tell you this site sure fired up the interest again.
From: Anonymous
Keep-on your good work, I tell you, your Web site is a dream...
From: GS
Keep up the strong work on Strong Signals. I visit everyday, and look forward to each visit.
From: MH in England
Your [MVT-9000] instruction manual is a revelation!
From: JA in Connecticut
Keep up the great work, I love reading your page.
From: Lenny
Recently came upon your site. Rarly respond, but you really have done a nice job! Great Site!
From: BG
You've got a GREAT site!
From: JC in Ohio
You do a fantastic job for us hobbiest, especially like me who have been around scanning 40 some years but not technically into it. I love your web site and there are thousands of people like me who greatly appreciate what you do and the effort it takes to do it.
From: WS in Illinois
Kudos again to you for the great webpage. Keep up the great work!
From: CM
I love your sight, visit and learn something almost every day, a "FIVE STAR" web sight for sure, you should be proud!
From: Chuck
This is a fantastic site...the rapidly-appearing information on the important VR-500 is really helpful, and tidbits such as the hint of a possible upcoming new AOR receiver are really keeping things exciting for me.
From: PC
Thank you for your great web site. Very informative and educational for a part-time listner like me.
From: SS
I've seen on your site that the VR-500 is becoming generally available. I like what I've read, but I wouldn't dare plunk down my hard earned cash until I was able to read your review!! You've got a great website! I've purchased a Uniden BC235XLT, an iCOM IC-R2 and a Radio Shack PRO-2066 based largely on your recommendations. They've all been great! Thanks again.
From: RB
Please keep up the great work on your web-site, I've learned a great deal from it.
From: PT
I found your site through excite.com and perused for about an hour. I now know a trunktracker from a bushwacker. VERY WELL DONE! Bookmarked, and I'll enjoy the subsequent visits
From: EM in Massachusettes
Just wanted to send a note to say what a great site you have. I was searching for frequencies on Percon on when your banner ad popped up. Glad I followed it! Your site is what the World Wide Web is all about. Keep up the good (and hard) work!
From: BH in Arizona
You are doing a great job on the site and I look at it the first thing every morning before I start work.
From: JR
I just want to tell you that I really liked your page. I do not know how much time it took you to gather all this information. Keep it up. It really helped me.
From: SM
I have only recently discovered Strong Signals...and I think it is one of the finest "hobby aids" that I have ever seen!!! Absolutely incredible!!! Furthermore--as web sites go--it is the best looking site--that I have ever seen. I have poor vision...and this site is the easiest to read--of any site--anywhere!!! I am so impressed--and very grateful for all that you have put forth!!! Thank-you!!!!
From: LW
Terrific job on your scanner faq's! Answered all my q's and q's I didn't even know i had as a novice. Appreciate it!
From: JL
Thank you for the [MVT-7100] manual, I want to tell you I got several responses when I sent out my request. You sir were the only one who responded with such kindness and willingness to share your obvious hard work. I am impressed.
From: SD in Canada
Your rewievs are very good experiences needed very much of any real radio user. They are very simple to understand and very useful even for someone without skill in domain of radio-technics. I appreciate Your efforts very much.
From: PC
I still check your website almost every day and learn something new all the time. Thanks for all you do for the hobby.
From: JF
Your web site is great. Thanks for all the hard work in providing it to all us scanner and ham nuts.
From: LD
And, as always, you're doing a fantastic job...
From: JA in Scandanavia
I am very impressed by your site and find all information very interesting.
From: TK
I must say that your site is EXCELLENT!! I have never seen so many well written scanner topics in one area.
From: CS
Thanks for having such a great, helpful web site.
From: KF in Canada
Thanks for the wonderful site. I check it daily and I for one do appreciate the hard work you put into it. I don't know how you do it .. but please continue to do so.
From: TB
I just wanted to say thank you for this great site.
From: JM
Thanks for a wonderful, very informative site. We are just getting into the hobby of scanning and your site was very helpful to help us make the decision about which scanner to buy.
From: Michael in New Jersey
With the hundreds of thousands of web sites on the WWW, yours, in my opinion, is truly the BEST! You have some much information. Im a beginner, and im so exicted about this resource I have and can't wait to get my Uniden Bearcat! Again, congradulations on this site and please keep it going!!
From: KO in England
This is just a quick note to say thanks for the help your site has given me in choosing my scanner. It's a brilliant site Rich. Your reviews gave in depth coverage in particular the comparisons and features I doubt if I could have got as much info in one place anywhere else , but mainly they were unbiased Finally your review was easier to understand than the manual so i use your review to set up the radio. You have obviously used this radio yourself that was apparent. So Rich you have helped me greatly with this matter your site is first class it must take up a great deal of your time. I for one appreciate your contribution to our hobby.
From: KU in North Carolina
I just wanted to say thanks for the great site! I've learned a *lot*.
From: Fred
I must say you have one of the best if not the best web page on scanner radios i have seen. It is always interesting to vist your page. Thanks for a great stop on the web.
From: MC
First, let me say you have a truely awesome web site!! I cant believe the time and effort you must have put into it. You have it packed with so much information, it's great!!
From: FS
This site is fascinating. I've been here for 3+ hrs looking for a new scanner. Keep up the good work.
From: AW in Massachusettes
Thank you for your web site. Good, no GREAT info.
From: MH in Arizona
On behalf of several Arizona scanner buffs, Thank you for putting up the best scanner site on the web, all your work is greatly appreciated!!
From: RM
You put a lot of hard work into what you do and it shows by the popularity of your site.
From: JD
Awsome job on the web site, I have never found a more informative source for scanner info and bulliten boards than on your site.
From: RC
You have an awesome website and I have your site as my first link on my website. I continually learn new things and get the latest info from your website. Great to have someone so enthusiastic about the hobby.
From: JW
Your site is great. I haven't found a more comprehensive site on the web on any topic.
From: Sean
Wow! Your site is one of the best organized and informative sites I have ever seen!! Keep up the good work...
From: HR in Australia
As a new comer to scanner I have found your site very helpful.
From: TW
Your web page is and was a great help to me, sorting through all the information about scanning. I utilized your rating system and purchased a Realistic 2042 base unit that you had at the top of yor list. AGAIN THANK YOU FOR A GREAT WEB PAGE!
From: Fred
Particularly impressed by your manual for the 9000 which I downloaded. Great site! You must invest a lot of time.
From: JG
Thanks for your GREAT site. It is my "home" site and I check it several times a day!
From: TY
Many thanks for running an excellent site - best on the net, as far as I'm concerned!
From: AL in Maryland
Thank you for such an informative, complete, and easy-to-use site! I used your site to make decisions on what scanner, co-axial cable, and antenna to purchase. In addition, your site led me to the dealers I purchased the above items from. Thank you again for maintaining Strong Signals. It's a gem.
From: SA in New York
Just a brief note to congratulate you on putting together a great site. I've made use of it a few times over the past week or so, and I've found it to be a HUGE resource. Well done!
From: RT in Australia
Keep up the good work. That is one great and comprehensive web page. I used it extensively in my latest radio buying choice.
From: DD
I am a big fan of your website and use it often. Thanks for your listening, and support, and keep up the great work for the scanner community.
From: AG
Thanks a lot for all your help and all that you have and are doing for the scanner enthusiasts, your site!
From: JV in New York
I have found your site the most informative and entertaining on the web. With your busy schedule I wonder how you can devote so much time to it (but please don't stop). Keep up the great work. There are countless people the world over who have come to rely on your expertise in this field and your unbiased reviews.
From: TV in California
I visit your site quite often and thoroughly enjoy everything that you do for the hobby.
From: KMF
Let me say how much I have come to enjoy your web page. Well done and very informative. I can honestly say it has sparked a deeper interest in "just" monitoring.
From: BP
Your page has opened my eyes up to a whole new world. I have read all your reviews and looked threw most of your web site. I really love it and appreciate what you are doing.
From: RW in Florida
I really like your site and have spent alot of time reading the reviews and message boards. Thanks for all your input. Keep up the good work...your love of the scanning hobby really shows!
From: DO
I really like your site. Thank you for all of your hard work that you do for people with the habit.
From: DS
Let me thank you for all you have done for this hobby (read passion)!
From: Anonymous
First of all I wanted to thank you for the valuable info you have provided me as well as others. Just wanted to let you know that the info you provide is well appreciated by yours truly. Thanks again for you have provided me with the proper info to make an intelligent choice in scanners for the future.
From: SW in Canada
Your site is excellent, and I refer many of my visitors who email me with questions regarding scanner reviews (which radio to buy) to your site, as it offers very well done, unbiased reviews. Great Work!
From: MH
This is my first visit to your site and it's tremendous!
From: LAD
I just had to tell you that you're Strong Signals Resource Page is absolutely outstanding! I think you outdid yourself on this one. Good job and keep up the good work!
From: DM
Just wanted to let you know (among so many others) that I have been loving your site for a while now, but I only recently bought a computer, so now I am able to communicate to you very easily. Anywho, I have found you're site to be the most informative site out there.
From: JR
Thanks for running such a great Web page!
From: RB
I just wanted to thank you for a very, very well done web page. Through your web page I have been able to get a much better understanding about scanners. What a great help you and your web page has been to a novice like myself.
From: AR
Your site is excellent for new or experienced listeners. It has helped me extensively! Keep up the good work.
From: Anonymous
Yours has to be the best scanner site on the WWW!!! Thanks for all the great info and here's a pat on the back for you, bad thing is it has to be self administered :)
From: MG
I want to say how impressed I am with your web site. A very professional job, and very informative!!! Thanks for all of your hard work!
From: GW
I've been visiting, reading, and buying per Strong Signals for a couple years now, Rich, and again want to say "Thank you!" for all your hard work. Your pages just keep getting better and better.
From: TS
I found my way to your site and just wanted to say THANK YOU for maintaining such a useful resource. The FAQ and the range and amount of information you have on scanner models and scanning in general is just so impressive.
From: BC
You're doing a great service to the hobby and I appreciate it. Thanks for all the great info. I bought the Sony PC1 computer controlled scanner after having read a lot of the reviews on your web site. I'm glad I took the time to read them. I'm very happy with my purchase. Thanks again for what must be a lot of time and effort.
From: MB
After spending a few weeks checking out all the scanning web sites, it's clear that yours is far and away the best. Relevent, timely, and concise info that's easily accessible... what more can you do? Thanks for the effort.
From: MD in Lousianna
Let me begin by telling you what an awesome site you have put together. I can't even begin to imagine how many hours you spent putting it together. I visit your site about 5 times weekly. I just felt that i had to thank you and to let you know how much all of your hard work is appreiated.
From: DM
Just had to let you know how glad I am that I found your site. I was linked here from a posting on ebay, my second home now that I found this.
From: BB
Just wanted to thank you for your wonderful web site which is rich in information. Thank you!
From: AB
I have to tell you, you've got the best web site ever. I have learned more from you about scanning then I have anywhere else.
From: MF
All I can say is yours is the absolutely best web site for a concise and well organized collection of scanner related data. Thanks to the information in your reviews I made some purchases which I am totally pleased with. Thanks for all the hard work ad the forum you provide for the hobby discussion. Please keep it up! Scanner and gadget junkies like me need this kind of information.
From: JS
Your doin a wonderful service for the scanning hobby.
From: KW
You have an excellent informative site! Thank you for providing such a service!
From: HG in Texas
I recently purchased the Yupi 9000 Ver. 3.4 from Bandercom. It now has a discriminator. Thanks to you, I'm extremely pleased with it. Thanks Rich, you have opened up an extremely rich hobby for me.
From: JW in Bolivia
I just wanted to give a quick thanks for your page. I read several "hometown" newspapers a day on the web as I work as a missionary pilot/aircraft mechanic in South America. Your page is no exception, I check it out every day. Well, all said, I love your page and it keeps me "in tune" to one of my favorite hobbies. Thanks a lot.
From: MC in Arizona
I've got to tell you that you have a great site. I love it. I'm new to this hobby and you got yourself a one stop shop. So kudos to you!!
From: JC
Great site, wonderfully organized and a pleasure on the eyes. I am just a beginner scanner, but find myself checking your site almost daily. Part of your success is having almost something new there each day to see. Your reviews are comprehensive and a real aide in purchasing.
From: NF in Denmark
Just bought a Yupiteru 9000 because of you! You have some of the best pages on the net, and of course the BEST scanner related. No doubt about that. Please keep up the faboulous work!
From: LC in Maine
I wanted to compliment you for offering such an informative website. By reading all the various reviews on scanners, I was able to make an informed decision when making my first scanner purchase. Happily, I chose the Sony ICF-SC1PC. It's everything you said it would be in the reviews...therefore I wanted to write to thank you. Thanks again, it a pleasure to have found you on the Net.
From: BB
The best site on the web, top of my favorite list! Look forward to updates and new equipment tests. Thanks for a great site: it really shows a lot of time and preparation......keep it going...don't change a thing.
From: KF in Canada
I must say "Keep up the great work". This is the best scanner site I have seen on the net. Love the up to date scanner into, particularly new equipment information. We all are searching for that perfect scanner! The scanner reviews are excellent as I love the unbiased thorough opinion.
From: RL in England
Your name is held with high regards in shops over here in the UK. Thank you for taking the time to mail me. I already check your site on a regular basis, it is very good.
From: LH
Great site Rich. I've been away from scanning for a while and your site is truly a wealth of information, thanks for all the effort and trouble. It really is a good web page and I will revisit it soon. Just wanted to commend you on your efforts and say thanks.
From: JL in Michigan
Your website is awesome and I really look forward to your updates everyday! Really, really cool and well done!!! A while ago I asked your advice and I took it, when you said that the RELM HS200 is a good scanner. I ended up buying it, and I love it. Thanks for the great advice. Thanks for contributing so much to the hobby.
From: JAO
I just want to take a moment to thank you for your hard work and dedication. Your website is execelent and very helpful, I thank you for dedicating so much of your time and hard work into your site. It really gives us beginners a basis to start with and many helpful hints and facts. I can not stress this enough "Outstanding Job on the WebSite". I will be visiting your site many more times to come in the future.
From: JD
Love your site. I have to admit that I don't really trust to much stuff on the net, but your site, from what I have found (and I found a lot) is great. Informative, precise and to the point including information to help me help understand you (I am but just a beginner as compared to you). As I said I don't really trust....well it is not that I don't trust but like to see things for myself......I wish I had trusted your site. I have been shopping around and had 5 scanners in front of me at one time. Everything you said about each one was perfect and would have saved me a lot of time. Taking back 4 scanners to 4 different places is no joy. I kind of wanted to let you know that your site was great and I have already benefited from it.
From: DAH
I've done a great deal of reading on your web site, and found it to be an outstanding resource. Thanks for the time and effort I know you have put in.
From: JC
I want to say to you, you have the best site. It is my plearure to visit!!!!!!! I have been here many times, more times than I should, and it is because of your excellence in presenting your subject knowledge to the rest of us, in a commonsense way. Thank you Rich...there will be a place in Heaven for you. You inspire those of us, with even the smallest amount of civility, to share with others, in this hobby, or with life in general. Thanks again Rich.

PS If you were to run for Pres., you would have my vote, because of your common sense attitude toward life.

From: CA in Maine
What a Web page! Truly well done. I have learned much. It is a great service, the message board, reviews, etc. In case you did not know it already, you certainly fit into the category of my motto: ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH OVER DOING (your radio collection).
From: LW
Just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed your review of this newest micro HH scanner. Again...the review was great! Really enjoy your "no holds barred", honest product reviews. Keep up the good work!
From: IF in England
This is just a very quick note to say thanks for your MVT-9000 User Manual web page. I got my MVT-9000 in Japan a few weeks after they first came out. I did get an 'English' manual with it, but as I'm sure you know, it's little short of useless. So what's my point? After, oooh... two and a half or maybe three (happy) years of MVT-9000 ownership, I finally found out how to set the priority channels thanks to your online manual! Keep up the good work! Thanks again!
From: ML in New York
I read your site weekly. Feel it is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: LV
I think you an have outstanding web site with real helpful information. The review's for the scanner are just flat out great! Keep up the good work!
From: JM
The site is great! Well organized, comprehensive and easy on the eyes. I check now nearly daily for updates. Keep up the good work. It's a real gem!!
From: AR
We've not spoken before, but being a fellow ham and an avid "scannist", I thought that it would be appropriate to drop you a note of THANKS for the wonderful job you have done in behalf of those of us who are looking for "just the right scanner".

I have been on the web for some time now, and have been a ham for over 40 years. Of all the websites that I have visited, I think that yours is just about the best site that I have come across in terms of GENUINE VALUE to the visitor. The amount of information, and quality of the information is without peer. When it comes to amount, there is of course competition (not that that is what it is all about). Probably AC6V's site one of the best for just the sheer amount of info. Well presented, and easy to navigate.

But in comparison, yours is still the number 1, because it takes more than just amount. It takes quality in the form of information disseminated to the visitor, and this is where your site shines. Being able to compare scanners almost on a side by side basis so to speak is such a pleasure, it takes almost all of the work out of picking and choosing.

Well, once again, just wanted to let you know, that in my book, this IS the number one site for informing people, and not limiting it to scanner info. You got the vote in my book. I think people should stop once in a while and write a website owner who obviously has been bending over backwards to make the best site possible. In this case, you have and done it well above and beyond my wildest expectations.

Rich, thanks one more time.

From: BS
And a big thanks to you Rich. Your web site is by far the most informative and professional I have seen and highly recommend it to all new (or old) users.
From: RL
For some time you have been a gracious and accessible voice of reason in the scanner hobbyist community. Your reputation and website are a valuable source of information!
From: DC in Scotland
What can I say? Your site is just incredible, so deserves all the praise it gets. Keep up your excellent work on scanning.
From: TBD in California
I really have learned quite a bit from your web page. It is quick too.
From: MJ in Finland
First I have to thank you for your pages! They have been very good source of information and very realiable too! Now I needed information about scanner that are suitable for me. I made an query of SCANNER in altavista and found your pages. After that i have had all information i need from there, thanks to YOU! I read all about scanners and all your REVIEWS. So this was just a story, how your pages have helped me a lot when trying to find just right sacnner for me!
From: LS in Minnesota
Had seen some pieces of Strong Signals while checking on other scanner data - Tonight i put in bc245xlt and up pops this great scanner web site - it's awesome to say the least Rich - Great detail and nice graphics. Keep up the good work - I'll spread your good news whenever possible.
From: RB in New Jersey
I love the web page! Great job!
From: J
I have read all of your reviews and you provide an excellent service to all of us. Just to let you know, your hard work does not go unappreciated!
From: HEC
Thanks again. By the way, I really enjoy your website...it is one of the best, if not the best site for scanning enthusiasts.
From: J in England
Jonathan Clough sent me to your site, for your MVT-9000 Owner's Guide. Just wanted to tell you that you have an EXCELLENT web site. You have put a lot of hard work into it. How do you write so much so well? One more time: Super job with your web site!
From: WS
I love your web site. I've been here for about 7 months now, on and off.
From: DL
I'd like to thank you for the hard work that must go into the Strong Signals site. This is one of the first real sites I've found, and a "veritable plethora" of scanner information, that gave me an understanding of the basics of scanning, scanner features, and the wide range of models. I never knew there were so darn many scanners available. Thanks again for the great website.
From: AD
Just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for the great site and all of the great info. I was in the market for a new scanner and came across your page and spent a ton of time there. Thanks again. I can tell you have put in a ton of work on you page!
From: AS
You have done it again! What a superbly written and well thought out review on the new Optocom. The major radio magazines could learn a few things from you about testing and reviewing products. I have been thinking seriously about buying this radio and your review was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you for bringing us the BEST radio site on the internet, the most informative and comprehensive product reviews in the business...PERIOD. The radio monitoring community can't thank you enough.
From: LF
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your web site. Lots of great information and I really look forward to the scanner reviews. I had been drooling over the Icom R2 for a while now. After reading your review I went ahead and ordered it from Lentini last week. That is one excellent piece of engineering. I won't ramble on too long here, but just wanted to take a moment to thank you for what must be many many hours of hard work each week to keep Strong Signals the top notch web site that it is.
From: JS
I wanted to thank you for the excellent source of information your web site has provided me. I just ordered my first scanner (BC235XLT) and can't wait to start listening. Keep up the good work!
From: DC
I live in Sweden and I am a regular reader of your Strong Signals page. Thanks to you (and all your links), I have a very good idea about scanners.
From: JNV
I just wanted to let you know how helpful your scanner reviews have been in helping me decide which scanner I want to buy. I am new to the scanning world of listening and got hooked on SW through my purchase of a Sangean ATS-909. Thanks for your time and response, and especially thanks for the website and your radio reviews, you have been a big help thus far.
From: RL
Thanks for posting your reviews of the various radios since it helped me decide on the AR8200. Keep up the good work with the web site!
From: Shawn
I'm a new scanner-monitoring-type-person who is looking for advice. I would just like to compliment you on you web site. It's thorough, and attractive! I'm impressed!
From: JFW
I know you're busy, so I'll keep it short. OUTSTANDING website. In fact, I find it so useful, I made it my browser's home page so I don't miss any updates. Thanks to your reviews and tips, I will be ordering an Optocom soon, and I will be making some other changes to my setup as well. Many thanks for your hard work. I've also been inspired to create my own scanning-related website. Here's hoping. Thanks again, and keep up the good work.
From: RWG
First I would like to say how much I enjoy your site. I have been a regular visitor to your site for about a year and half and I never tire of returning to your site to see what new information you might have added since my last visit. I find your articles, reviews and notes very interesting, informative and unbiased, especially your radio reviews. I cannot imagine the amount of time that it takes to keep your site up to date and still be able to do radio reviews but I am sure that the task is quite demanding. Yours is the only site that I frequent on the internet and I for one hope that you can continue to find the time to keep it running. "Thanks!!!"
From: HL
Just wanted to tell you that I am enjoying your site! I am a new to the scanner world and thanks to your site, a educated newbee! Anyway thanks for all your resources, links, and reviews. I've found ALL of your website to be resourceful and fun. Keep up the good work!
From: TG in Canada
I have spent a few hours in the last few days going over ur site as well as posting a few QS to the message board. I have found it good easy reading, with good advice.
From: RL
I want to thank you for your efforts in building Strong Signals. As a 'newbie' in radio scanning, I cannot tell you enough how invaluable your information has been. My hat's off to you.
From: Dennis
No, thank you Rich. I am really pleased with PCR1K and I would never had been as sure of the purchase if it were not for your in depth review. I know I speak for the many who are silently lurking out there but who have relied heavily upon your unselfish help.
From: TWT
I just want to commend you on a FANTASTIC web site with regard to scanning. I am a computer nut and work as a programmer/analyst, but knew nothing about scanners. My wife wanted one for her birthday (she is a naturally nosey person) and so I started looking around. It did not take long to find your site, which I used EXTENSIVELY in doing my research. We would have never picked the right one without the help of your site. In my opinion you have, far and away, the PREMIER web site on scanning. Thanks so much for your time and efforts in helping educate people like me.
From: RS
Just a short note to say thanks for your tremendous efforts on this site! Believe very few people really know how much TIME, effort, and dedication go into this "World Class" web site. Outstanding job!! Am truly amazed at the tremendous amount of information on your site, and how well it is organized. Found the User Survey/comments section on mail order companies very useful. Thanks, again for your Outstanding work!!!
From: KR
By the way, your web page is great; the R2 review at your site was a major factor in my decision to purchase this radio.
From: JH
Thank you for all your hard work regarding your web page. Your information is right on target and is VERY helpful. I just wanted to say "thanks" for your hard work you have done. Now, I have the fever again. Thanks again!
From: PL in South Africa
I think your page is the best and most comprehensive on the net, and almost all the info about scanning i know i got from your or via your site. You are obviously dedicated to the hobby! I think i'll make it my home page!
From: RP
Keep up the good work on this VERY fine site.
From: HS
Am a beginner and found your web site and am enthusiastically reading about everything. Thanks for your great contribution to the hobby.
From: AGN in Spain
I work for a shipping company-coastal traffic and half of my job time is dedicated to security related items and I had the luck to show my bosses at this level the benefits of understanding and using radio for security communications and monitoring. I thank you for the time you will dedicate to this message and the knowledge you have provided me with; it's been really worthy for my job.
From: KHL in Malaysia
I am new to scanning and find www.storngsignals.net to be a very good site - not just on scanners but there are NO ERRORS - compared to many sites (non scanning) where pages are missing, slow response, etc. Congratulations, and please keep up the good (GREAT) work. I think I will visit your site VERY often and hope to learn a lot from your site.
From: JC
THANK YOU very much for your excellent web site! I have learned a great deal from your hard work!
From: PG
Just wanted to tell you how impressed I was with your web page. I cannot imagine the time and resources used to put it together.
From: LP
I spent the last 4 days or about 8 hours searching the net on scanners. I go hot and cold on them. I have visited at least 150 to 300 sites over the past year. Hands down you have created the best site on the entire internet. I just hope that people who visit your site can appreciate and realize the dedication and time it has taken you to assemble and organize what you have placed out there for them to use and peruse. I just wanted to take moment to say thank you. The only word that I can use is incredible to describe Strong Signals. It take true dedacation to do what you have done.
From: BB
I read (and still read) with great enthusiasm your reviews of all of the radios. Thanks for such a great job of reviews and unbiased reporting. Your rating system and narrative give a very clear picture as to the workings of each radio and surely helped to firm my decision. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
From: MA
I would like to say you have a great web site on scanning. I have found more info in a few minutes at your site than most of the others combined!
From: CC in Arkansas
I understand and I applaud your effort to educate the inexperienced with knowledge that you have aquired over the years.
From: JF
I wanted to send you an e-mail thanking you for all your work. Sometimes a personal opinion is better than any commercial advertisements you hear about.
From: TC
WOW!!! I have been out pouring over your sight for the last couple weeks now. GREAT SITE!!! Thanks alot for pointing me there, and I have learned alot. I wish I would of known about it before I started asking dumb questions!!
From: ML in New York
Just wanted to tell you of the GREAT web site you have on the hobby of scanning. I'm currently reviewing/reading your site every day and trying to learn more and more about the great hobby of scanning. Keep up the GREAT work and I'll keep this on my "favorite places" listing!
From: DD
I think your website is the most complete scanning website I've ever seen. I usually visit it at least once a week. Keep up the great work!
From: NB
I would like to thank you for the effort you put into this page. As far as I am concerned, it is the best resource available on the internet for the scanner enthusiast. Thanks for your help and the service you provide to the scanner community.
From: SD
Were it not for your site I'd have been at the mercy of the evil Radio Shack employees :) I mean if someone asked me what the most valuable thing I learnt was, I'd say about 800 MHz. Without that info alone I would have bought a scanner without it probably, and I'd have been very pissed off given that most the fun where I live happens on there. I mean before I read your site I had no clue on images, squelch tails etc... Your site is terrific. I can't even criticise the design of it, and I'm a picky bastard when it comes to that :) Minimal graphics (always a good thing on a dialup connection :)), no stupid java stuff... I wish more people designed pages like yours. User friendly and incredibly informative. There are other scanner sites, but I just can't praise yours enough since I found out EVERYTHING I wanted to know. Keep up the good work!
From: KW
First off let me say that your web site is excellent. I am new to the fiels and have found it to be tremendous. Thank you for the excellent references.
From: DR in Japan
I love the web page. Best source of info for scanning out there. Keep up the good work.
From: KV
Just needed to send a quick note to thank you for your exceptional web-site! A back injury laid me up and got me interested in scanners; which I've enjoyed for about a year. Now I'm moving toward Amateur Radio and studying for the requisite exams. The hard work you have put into your web-site really shines! Writing takes work and you write well. I especially appreciate your willingness to express and commit to an opinion. These days I often think that folks are afraid to have opinions; for fear of offending someone. But without clear ideas and opinions we have no basis from which to make comparisons! As a newcomer, I appreciate the opportunity to read your ideas and compare them with information from other sources. That's makes for learning! You've done a great job!
From: RD
Let me say thank you for such a great page. Being new to the hobby I found all of your information so usefull and it really helped me.
From: GD in California
I just logged on to your site and I must compliment you on an outstanding tutorial website. If I guessed, I would say you must have a staff of "many". Nevertheless, the site is the most comprehensive I have ever seen....of any kind. Your classy and commonsense approach is remarkable. It is like "going to school". I am earmarking it as a "favorite" because there is just too much here to assimilate at one sitting. I want to take the appropriate time to study all you have written. Thanks again for your effort and the "lessons".
From: KS
I want to congradulate you on a great web site, I find myself checking it about 2 time a day. Also have used a bunch of the reviews when trying to decide which radio or product to use.
From: MK in Florida
Keep up the great work. Most of our members are using your site as their "reference standard" for scanner purchases in the future. I just hope that you relize that all the hundreds of hours you have spent on the website have not gone unappreciated!!!!!!!!!!!
From: MW
Just thought I would drop you a line to let you know how much I enjoy your website. It has the most information in one place I have ever seen, and all the links are easy to navigate. Also you'r site is so easy to navigate and fast too. The forum is also the best with good people and lots of help and good information.
From: RK
I just wanted to thank you for the information you provide in your reviews. I found your site while searching for more info on Uniden Scanners. The information you provide is invaluable.
From: RP
Thanks again for a GREAT and VERY useful web site. I check into it at least four times per week if not daily.
From: PW
This is the Ultimate scanner site, please keep up the good work. Thanks for many hours of enjoyable reading.
From: DK
I'd just like to take a minute to compliment you on your fine site and to thank you for making this resource available. I've had a Pro-51 for a couple of years and I'm thinking about "moving up" to a higher-end handheld, and the information on your pages has been invaluable. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
From: KT in Florida
Thank you for a great page! I am a novice scanning enthusiast I recently purchased a bearcat 895xlt after reading your review. I am still learning to use it but so far I am having loads of fun using it. We just had a bad storm come thru here this past weekend, and I used the scanner to monitor all the emergency crews, and the weather alert feature will give us a sense of safety as we live in a tornado prone area. Thanks again for all of your help. If you ever wonder if you are provoding a useful service, be assured that you have helped at least one newcommer to this wonderful world of scanning.
From: JB
Keep up the great work! Read your page at least every day. It's the best source of hardware info for the monitoring hobby.
From: JM
Thanks for all the hard work you do for us.
From: RP
Thanks for a FANTASTIC web site!!!
From: JRC in Ohio
Thanks for all the enjoyment your web site provided me in 1998 and I hope it continues on through 1999.
From: KP
What a marvellous Web-site! I just want to express my appreciation for the effort you must put into creating this magic site. I was considering buying a scanning radio, a Yupiteru 7100, and was idly looking for information that would assist me in making this decision. I was lucky enough to find your site.
From: JW
Great job!!! You sure don't spare the details. Thanks!
From: AS
Wow! You really have a wonderful site! I have found lots of great info. I have been into scanning for several years now and I now am really into Military aircraft monitoring. Keep up the good work!
From: ADA
I just discovered your site and I'm flying on air! What a marvellous collection of well-organized information and just what I, a scanner newbie, needed to get oriented! How can you afford to take the time to do such a professional site, especially without advertising?
From: RS
You have one hell of a web site. Love it, and I'll be spending alot of time there.
From: SK
I want to thank you for maintaining such a great web site. I am employed in Public Safety and scanning is second only to ham radio. Your site gives all of us out here in scanner land something the monthly mags don't, that is timely, HOT, information. You need to know your efforts are really appreciated.
From: MS
I have visited your page on several occasions and even submitted a couple of survey forms. I must say this is an EXCELLENT resource for those interested in radio, and I wish you all the best with it for the future - please keep up the good work.
From: PV in Wisconsin
I just want to tell you what a great page you have. I have accessed it many times now and the amount of great information is very impressive. You have put a tremendous amount of work into this and it has been very helpful to me.
From: HS
Just wanted to say that you have a really impressive site with a tremendous amount of valuable information. I look forward to browsing through the pages and reading some of your reviews.
From: SC
I have been a scanner enthusiast for years, but I just discovered your web site recently. WHAT A GREAT RESOURCE!! Your data base has already help me make some very informed decisions on equipment purchases. Thanks for providing a site that adds so much more to our hobby.
From: BL
After seeing several of your responses on the newsgroups I visited your site. The wealth of information is amazing. I don't know how you find the time to keep it all going. I used your information to research my latest scanner buying impulse and have decided on the BC895XLT. I am certain I will be satisfied. Without the information on your site, the decision would have been considerably more difficult, so I thought it would be nice to write and thank you for your efforts. Keep up the good work.
From: EH in Michigan
I love your page - great resource for ANYone interested in our hobby. Keep up ³ the *GREAT* work on the reviews and everything else...
From: CH
Since I found your resource page, I've come here first to get helpful information. Appreciate your hard work.
From: DG
You have done an excellent job and an invaluable service to the world community with your web site! A hobby such as scanning and/or ham etc. is a good thing for most people. The amount of info that you have provided is done with style, thoroughness and effectively. There have been a few times I have asked myself "What motivates someone to invest their personal time and energies in creating and maintaining a web site, such as yours?" You know what? I guess only you and a handful of others really know the answer to that, Rich. Anyway, I learned alot and will conbtinue doing so, thanks to you.
From: DY
Just wanted to Thank You! again for you web site and the help it has provided me. I wrote you some time ago (Sept?) and asked for some advice. That help, along with the tremendous amount of information available from your site, really enabled me to make what I feel was a good choice in buying a higher-end scanner. I've now received my AR8200 (Javiation/Jonathan) and I love it! I'm just getting my feet wet (or maybe up-to-my-neck) at this point, but am enjoying every drop of it!
From: CM
I wanted to take a moment to tell you what a GREAT page you have. I am about to enter into the world of scanning and your site has been invaluable to me.
From: TB
I couldn't go without telling you how nice I thought your site is. I've never sent a message like this before, since most of the sites I visit are either poorly laid out, slow to load, etc. etc. Yours is a real exception!
From: GB in Italy
I've to thank you for the huge amount of time you are spending for all the people, like me, who find in your pages a reference point and an unlimited source of informations. And your technical reviews about radios and antennas are my preferred stops: when I bought the R2 -for example- the only thing I didn't know about it was the price! Now it performs exactly as I expected.
From: JS
You have built a truly awsome site. Thanks for all the reference material contained in it!
From: TL in England
I wanted to say that I was just in London and picked up an IC-R2 and your review of it was right "on the mark". I was also impressed that you included the other followup which disagreed with you a little. I will watch for your reviews in the future because I expect that they will be as Excellent as this one was. Thanks for the good work.
From: BL
You've created something really terrific. My first time here and I love it.
From: MH in Maine
I live in Maine and I enjoy your web site Strong Signals, as it is very informative and it leaves just about every other scanner website in the dust.
From: JM
I love your web page. It is the best I have seen!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: DW
I enjoy your web page very much. It's probably the best scanning related page I have visited. I took the opportunity to look at the pics of your scanner collection! I was totally blown away! Never seen so many scanners at one place! Hell, my local RS doesn't have THAT many! What a collection. Showed the pics to my wife and all she said was, "oh, noooo!" :=))
From: LB
As always, thanks for all of your hard work that helps all of us (scanner enthusiasts) stay better informed and learn at the same time.
From: JC in Ohio
I always thought your previous web site was terrific, but your new look is even better. Your site is still the first I check each day and find it to be always informative and not lacking in any information that I need. Keep up the good work.
From: PH in Sweden
I have just found the best scannersite on the web - Yours!
From: KG
I have viewed hundreds of websites, both personal and professional. I have never seen a more comprehensive and well organized effort. I've suggested to several of my vendors that they should browse yours to see how valuable the Internet can be - properly used.
From: DY
First let me say straight off how wonderful your web site is. I'm impressed on how many models you cover and the detail that goes in to each report. I am currently in the market for a new radio to replace the one I am using for a live scanner feed to the Internet. I found your site really helped me in deciding from which radio to choose. Again, thanks for the FANTASTIC page, I look forward to seeing what comes in the future!
From: RR in Brasil
I visited your site and liked it a lot, it has a lot of information about the scanners and it helped me plenty to know more about some of the models that I intend to acquire. Congratulations for your work!
From: SG
I'm just a casual scanner enthusiast and I just wanted to tell you "Thanks!" for your web site. I couldn't tell you how many times I have had questions or just wanted somebody's opinion on something, and I can always go to your site to find what I need. Anyway, thanks for your hard work and I hope you keep it up!!
From: AN in England
Thank you for your great web site....over here in England there isn't anything to match it! Have found your site very informative and beautifully laid out and so easy to use.
From: EB in Ireland
Your web page is absolutely brilliant.
From: CC
I just wanted you to know what an unbelievable site "Stong Signals" is among some really good sites. I have been back at your site almost everyday, shaking my head at the depth of this site. I can't imagine what kind of time it takes to put it together. You must have a real passion for the hobby. It is a big help to us newbies! Anyway, thank you for the great knowledge you are willing to share with others. I really, really enjoy your site. You are the MAN!
From: MD
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Your site is absolutely GREAT. I am researching between a couple of scanners I want to buy and since I found your site, all of my questions have been answered. Keep up the fabulous work on maintaining this site.
From: DK in New Jersey
Thanks for your continuing contributions to the hobby. Your "strong signals" page is outstanding.
From: GP in Sweden
Just want to thank you for an excellent site!! Really great when you want information about radios! I was looking for a review on the Alinco DJ-X10, and found right away! Keep up the good work!!
From: IO in England
I must congratulate you on the best scanner site I have ever visited. It's like my bible and I think it's brilliant. Thanks again for such a wonderful web site. I really am in awe and if I had the know how it is exactly how I would have mine. Info, topics and assistance are absoloutely first class, you obviously devote a great deal of time and effort to it and it shows.
From: CM in Germany
Thanks for your tremendous contribution to this hobby. Your efforts are readily apparent and much appreciated.
From: BM
Good work on putting this web site together. You did a VERY GOOD JOB!!!! Keep up the hard work and continue to bring us the very best.
From: MB in California
I have never seen a page on the web with more information in one spot than your strong signal web page. I do not know if there is any other information in the universe about scanners or signals that you failed to have a link to or have on your page. Your dedication to this page must be near 100% of your time. You should be congratulated on your efforts.
From: EB in Ireland
Just to say a big thank you for a great web page.
From: LW in Ohio
Just wanted to THANK YOU for doing such a GREAT job of keeping all of us "monitoring-types" informed about news, changes, and interesting happenings in the scanning world..both locally and nationally. Yours is the ONLY site I find that does this and does it VERY WELL! I always enjoy "stopping-by" to keep abreast of all the interesting information you make available to us for free. I know it must be a LOT of work, but I must say you deserve a LOT of credit for your time and efforts spent to do this great BBS for our hobby (and we hobbyISTS). PLEASE keep up the GREAT work, as your website is the BEST ! Otherwise, if it wasn't here, I'd have to get ANOTHER HOBBY (hand-rolling Q- Tips or something...). KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP...you ARE appreciated much by MANY hobbyists!
From: JB in North Carolina
I just wanted to send you a quick note saying how much I like your site. It is one of the best scanner sites around.
From: TB
My God Man! Are all those radios yours? I feel guilty about the number of radios that I have. I really got a laugh out of the picture of all the hand-helds that you have.
From: BK
Just wanted to drop a quick line to say thanks for your effort and time that went into setting up & maintaing this web page. I really appreciate your reviews and have made several purchases based on the information in them. (I have yet to be disappointed). It is extremely difficult to obtain objective information in todays "mail order" society so again your efforts as well as those of the people who take time to send you good and cuurent info are greatly appreciated.
From: RE
May I say how impressed I am with your site presentation and content, please don't stop.
From: NR in Canada
Just a quick note to let you know I think your scanner info website is a God send and a huge wealth of information. I'm just getting started in the scanner hobby and find the site to be invaluable and just what I needed.
From: LB in New Hampshire
Well, anyways I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed some of your website (I havent finished reviewing it yet!) and I felt compelled to let you know that I really appreciate the amount of time and effort you have put into this site. I did find some answers to questions I've had over the years in just about 5 minnutes after logging into your site. So THANKS SO MUCH and I'll be visiting again and again and again.
From: IS
Absolutely excellent web page for scanner buffs. You are to be complimented on the excellent reviews.
From: NK
Thanks for the help as always. By the way, I know you must hear this all the time but your web site is truly outstanding. In addition, if it weren't for your original review of the 9000 (almost two years ago now?) I would of never even know that the thing existed, and probably would not of gotten back into scanning after neglecting it for several years.
From: CM in New York
I want to commend you on what is without a doubt the best scanner related resource that I have found on the 'Net. Great radio reviews!
From: MK
I came across your web site about three weeks ago, and I must state that it has to be one of the best sites on the Internet. With the new equipment out, I find your comments and suggestions to be informative and reliable since I am now looking for a base unit. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! IT IS MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!
From: DY
I just want to again thank you for such a tremendous web site! And the more I visit, the more I learn! I wanted you to know that your site is the best of ANY that I have visited ... well organized ... comprehensive ... not a bunch of useless stuff that I sometime see. I really admire your dedication and knowledge, thanks for sharing it with folks like me!
From: JM
Keep up the magnificent job you've been doing with your Strong Signals Resource Page! I find myself logging on nearly once a day to keep up with developments in the wonderful world of radio.
From: JC in Ireland
As a fairly recent enthusiast, I read your letter to the editor in the current (October) issue of Short Wave Magazine with great interest. I have just finished a quick browse through your web site, and it is the best radio-related site I have visited - congratulations! When time permits over the next few days, I will go through the huge amount of information in greater detail.
From: GS
I used your web site to select a scanner, it was by far the best and most informative source of information available. Thanks! I purchased a bearcat trunk scanner & for my needs, it is perfect. Again, thanks for the web site, it is great and well thought out. You must have spent a lot of time gathering all this info. and packaging it in a format that is user friendly over a wide span of "types" users.
From: SF
Thanks for the awsome page! I'm sure you get plenty of junk e-mail; but I had to drop you a line to say "Thanks!"
From: TB
Thanks for the great reviews! Your honesty and "matter of factness" is greatly appreciated by the reader.
From: SH in England
Thanks are in order for the info from your web site. It really made finding my way through the scanner jungle a lot easier and I'll be a regular visitor from now on.
From: RP
I have read with interest your reviews on various wide band receivers, especially the AOR AR8200, and appreciate all of your efforts ! You provide a GREAT service to the hobby! Thanks for all of your efforts!
From: RT
I'm a newbie to scanning and can't thank you enough for your terrific website. Keep up the good work.
From: BO
What a wonderful site. Your dedication and assistance are much appreciated. Your pages certainly shed a lot of light on some basic questions I had.
From: DL
You are nothing short of a devoted radio/webmaster work-a-holic. Fantastic site both content and appearance and it is appreciated! Keep up the good work!
From: FK
Congratulations on a fine web site. I enjoyed it and will do so in the future. THANKS!
From: GK
Your message board is a great resource! The newsgroups, rec.radio.scanner and alt.radio.scanner have become almost unusable due to the unmoderated nature of those beasts. For some reason these two forums attract a lot of guys who enjoy flaming more than scanning. It sure is nice to see only relevant scanning topics. Thanks.
From: RK in Texas
I just wanted to let you know how great your site is! Most of the popular radios with specs and NON-BIASED reviews! It will prove to be an important part to help me find and choose the best scanner for me. I have not kept up on the latest, but your site has clued me in on some of the newer scanners on the market. Keep up the great work!!!
From: JW in England
This is a note to compliment you on an excellent site, it must have taken a long time to construct. It's a pity other sites do not compare. Keep up the (very) good work!
From: BD in New Jersey
P.S. - allow me not to leave without saying, keep up the great work... I am proud to say "Hey I correspond with this guy"... You're getting to be somewhat of a celebrity in the communications world...
From: GS
Rich, I just finished reading your review of the RE2000. You obviously put a ton of work into it. Thanks. I look forward to visiting the Strong Signals page often, you always have some great information.
From: SH in England
Once agian, Thank God for your thoughtful input. I would hope that maybe Yupiteru would hire you as a consultant and or author of a decent manual!!
From: Larry
And also thanks to your site I have learned so much more about scanning. Your site is proving to be more and more valuable by the minute.
From: DT
Wonderful site. I wonder that there is no advertising. Cool but sure worthty of some.
From: RF
Came across your web page today, and I have to tell you that it is very impressive. Nice job, sure must take a ton of work. Thanks much.
From: DY
Again thanks for your advice. You have the best web site on scanners/radio that I've seen! I'll visit often. I appreciate the work you've put into it and admire your dedication to monitoring.
From: JM
First of all I want to thank you for the excellent site. I check in frequently to keep up to date on what is happening and for your comments on specific radios. I don't know how you find the time to attend to it, but I, for one, appreciate it.
From: DH
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your efforts on this site. It really is great! I've been into scanners since before there were scanners and am both amazed and disgusted with some of the current trends. Love the hobby and it's people like you that help make it great!
From: DK
On another note, your web site is EXCELLENT, and your reviews on the radios are outstanding - I especially like your statement about wanting to have a resource that is immune from the garbage that fills the scanning-related newsgroups - I have stopped reading them due to the flame-wars, insults, etc. etc.!
From: RH in Oregon
Your web page is really a scanner entusiasts dream! I'm kinda new to serious scanning and have learned alot from your page. Thanks for the hard work!
From: NW
You helped me sooo much in deciding how to chose the right scanner.
From: FH in Texas
No, I believe the thanks go to you Rich for having the finest Scanner Information source available! I for one, very much appreciate the hard work that goes into this web site. So as always keep up the good work and I'm sure I will send many more your way.
From: PK
A ham friend of mine introduced me to scanning and this has added a whole new dimension to my radio experience. I once again look forward to buying new toys and once again having fun with radio. This is due in great part to guys like you who put in countless hours to web sites that really show it. I look forward each day to reading what you have to say and what new things are on the horiz on. Your site is far and above so much better than the rest. All I can say is thanks.
From: MH
Have NEVER seen a scanner/radio sight on the net with such GREAT INFO. I just wanted to thank you for the additional information provided by your review, and tell you to KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. Your site is original, informational, and productive.
From: JP
Rich, you have a wonderful site. Keep up the good work. I've been a scanner fan for years and really appreciate your efforts
From: SH in Sweden
Thank you very much for your fine iCOM IC-PCR1000 Review. I have to send you this e-mail just to say that. It's fantastic to sit here in Sweden and try to figure out who to handel my IC-PCR1000 and then find and read your review. Suddenly I have answers to many of my questions. It's 10 points of 10!!
From: CS in Nevada
Excellent Page! I love it man, one stop shop for everything.
From: SS
I just wanted to thank you for the info you provided on the AR8200, with pictures and everything! You are what makes the Internet such a valuable resource.
From: AJ in Indonesia
You Homepage is my favorite, I always drop to your URL everyday to check latest update.
From: DS in Ohio
Your web site is great, I check it every day, and you've always got good pertinent information. I think your web site is what keeps my interest in monitoring. The scanner newsgroups are terrible, with all the flaming going on all the time. Too much bashing, not enough information.
From: BM
Again, I want to comment on your STRONGSIGNALS Web site ... It is really pretty amazing and I keep finding new features where you cover different aspects of this field of interest. You have, and continue, to put-in some serious time and effort so we can all "tune-in" and enjoy. Thank you very much, Rich. It is appreciated!!!
From: Larry
Your pages about scanners and all related stuff are great. It's the first thing I check when I get on the web.
From: PC
Thanks for the most interesting scanner site on the web.
From: VB
Thank you so much for your unbiased report on the WinRadio 1000i. This report is the first one i have read that is real open and clean.
From: RF in Belgium
I extremly happy to find web like yours.You have to know that here in belgium those kind of product are illegal, so we spend our times an the web (not to many) finding the info.
From: PK
I have been enjoying my PRO-26 along with the help of my W-889 (thanks to your good advice) but like all upgrades, it's never enough!! Your advice is golden...
From: BM
Your "Strongsignals.net" is quite informative extremely well done. I find myself "checking in" evry day! Guess I'm hooked, eh? Really neat!
From: KC
I just wanted to say hello and THANKS for the always excellent and informative site!!
From: SM
I looked at you web site and was amazed. You really helped me to make some difficult decisions. I am new to the world of radios and all the help I can get is greatly appreciated.
From: JB
I certainly hope that someone has discovered your talents for technical composition, you should be getting paid handsomely, with a byline for your fine efforts.
From: DA in Canada
I must say that your efforts in putting up so much relevant radio related information is religiously appreciated. Many thanks.
From: Bob
Thanks for the GREAT web site. Keep up the good work. You have a lot of great "stuff" and I expect I'll be spending a lot of time here. Thanks again.
From: RG
As I mentioned before I think that you have the best damn Scanner web-site on the Net and I know the amount of work that it takes to keep it that way. I for one really appreciate your effort.
From: PL
Rich, I really appreciate your pages ... Once again your pages are a landmark to those of us who haven't had the chance to touch many radios. Thanks Again...
From: BM
I just wanted to say that your site is very well organized and full of good information. I found it while searching for info on the new AOR AR8200. I really like the "Latest News and Updates" section.
From: PG in England
Hi Rich, just read your write-up on your first impressions of the AR8200 ... well worth waiting for ... very informative indeed ... as I had expected from you! :) ... Thank you.
From: MS in New York
Amazing. The quality and depth of this report [AR8200 First Impressions], in such a short time, is very impressive.
From: RG
First of all I think that you have the best Scanner web-site on the net bar none. I am always returning to your site for your radio reviews and new information page. You have given me a wealth of information, so I would like to say THANKS.
From: JC in Ohio
Just a note to tell you what a wonderful site you have in strongsignals.net. I have been a scanner enthusist for many years and finally have come upon your site which give me so much useful information. Thanks for making it available.
From: LB
Thank you for your wonderful web site. It is truly chock full of information. I have been reading much of the information on your site to get myself ready to purchase a high end scanner that will hopefully be my scanner for the next few years. Once again, Thanks for all of your hard work.
From: PG
Sincere thanks for all your work in running such an excellent and extremely useful site, it has proved to be invaluable to me and I'm sure, very many others.
From: PF in California
...just a short note to say THANK YOU. This is my first visit today and I am overwhelmed by your generosity, etc. in putting your extensive site together for beginners like me to visit.
From: JB
Just a note of appreciation and congratulations on such a fine site. Coming across your site prior to a recent purchase was a godsend. Your thorough reviews and insight made purchasing an ICOM R10 from an informed position possible.
From: WS in Canada
LOVE YOUR PAGE!
From: BO in England
I'm most impressed by the time you have taken to produce such am amazing tome. You will get your reward, I just hope it is in this life.
From: RL
Just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your contributions to the hobby. I've found your web page to be a great source of information, and whenever I turn anyone on to scanning, it's the first place I send 'em.
From: GP
Just wanted to compliment you on a fabulous website.
From: GS
Rich, I am very impressed by your scanner page. I consider myself more than a beginner in the scanner field, and I still found some great information. I will be sure to recommend this page to new and old scanner enthusiasts. You have put so much information into this page, and I will be sure to use this as a reference over and over. Great links also. Thanks for a very useful and informative page. I know you have put much work into this.
From: RS in Canada
Just wanted to say that this is a great web page Rich, very informative for all my questions and reference. Keep up the good work.
From: Anonymous
I would like to thank you on a well done web page. The page on the BC235XLT was very informative. I have been searching for a day or two for places that have comments, and other spec.'s on it, and yours is the best by far that I have found. So keep up the good work.
From: RW
I just wanted to say what a great job you have done, first class!! This saves me endless frustration and disappointment of buying something that wouldn't do what I wanted. As you know, there aren't radio shops on every corner so I have to make my best guess based on what I read.
From: MP
I've been meaning to do this for along time now, but I just wanted to compliment you on an excellent web page, full of "usefull" information and reviews. I have yet to buy a scanner or a product with out first looking through your reviews. I really enjoy your in depth reviews, your numbered chart, and your end round summary, I can almost always find an answer to my question in them, and while our needs may differ sometimes in terms of what we want in a radio, you are able to capture the basic essence of what that radio can do for everyone. Keep up the good work and thanks for providing the best all around service in the scanning industry
From: Anonymous
I just found your web page. I just wanted you to know that it is the best scanner info source I have ever seen. Thanks.
From: MW in England
I have only just found your MOST impressive site through Short Wave Magazine here in Blighty. I must congratulate and thank you for all the hours of work that must go into maintaining your site, so that we can all drop in for info. Thank you very much.
From: DB
GREAT Web Page! Especially for a beginner. Thanks!
From: KB in England
Excellent review of the PCR1000! Keep up the excellent work.
From: GN in Australia
I am just going through the process of buying a scanner as a first-time user, and wanted to thank you for wealth of information you have released on the subject. Your reveiws have greatly simplified the process of making a choice (well, actually they have complicated it immensley - it's much easier to choose when you have no idea what your're looking at). Thanks for the great service you have been providing.........
From: Mike
I enjoyed your page profusely....good details on lots of scanners.
From: MA in Denmark
I want to complement you for your very nice scanner-homepage. It is a huge page and it covers everything about scanners. I live in Denmark and I know that there are many people here in Scandinavia/Europe enjoying your scannerpages.
From: HP in Ohio
Just finished reading your in depth review of WinRadio. I always marvel at how thorough and accurate your reviews are. Great job! However, I'm axiously awaiting your review of the PCR-1000. Could you give me any idea when it will be ready? I'm interested in this radio but I wouldn't consider buying this or any other scanner without reading your review first.
From: Eric
I just wanted to let you know that your web site is awesome! You were the first place anywhere that I heard about the new AR8200. Great job!
From: BS
Strong Signals is an EXCELLENT resource for scanner hobbyists.
From: PM
Just want to take a minute to personally thank you for the time and effort involved in maintaining the Strong Signals Resource Page. Your review was instrumental in my ordering one of the new Sony SC1PCs. Additionally your daily News and links are definitely helpful and valuable. Thanks once again.
From: BB
Great site, made it my home page so I check the update section everyday. You provide a great service to scannists. Keep up the good work.
From: JE in South America
I must tell you, I love your webpage. I can tell you spend alot of time on it. I thank you for you time and efforts, if you only help one person, it's still well worth it. I will tell you, you've helped me a great deal, on my purchase of a Radio Shack Pro-64. Your page is very resorceful. I check it everyday for updates. Thank you for getting me started in this wonderful hobby.
From: DK
You have an incredible site and I have gained significant knowledge on this new hobby by visiting almost every page on it- thanks!
From: JC in Illinois
A great source of information [New Scanner User FAQ] in a single place for both the newbie and those of us who just enjoy seeing what's going on.
From: JC
Thanks again for all you've contributed to the hobby - and my personal enjoyment of it. I think I have a sense for how much work you put in on your website and I'm most appreciative.
From: LT
I just wanted to thank you for putting together such a remarkable site! The effort you have put into this is clearly visible and I just wanted to let you know your work is appreciated. Keep up the great work!
From: DD
I wrote you about your page a week or so ago when I had just bought a PRO-64. Since then I have been using the computer loading of freq. and love this thing. This is very addictive and my TV is starting to feel neglected. I appreciate your help. Your web site has become my bible for my new interest.
From: CC in Arkansas
That was the most comprehensive and well written piece of review literature that I have ever seen [Sony ICF-SC1 First Impressions]. You should definitely be working for a serious magazine. Wow.
From: TM
Just wanted to tell you that yours is one of the best sites on the web. I spent much time studying your very informative and complete reviews of scanners, several of which I own. Keep up the good work.
From: Mike
You're reviews are great and have helped me in choosing my scanner. Keep doing what you are doing and I support all that you are doing. Great job!!!!!
From: JH in New Mexico
Just wanted to say what a great site you have! You have developed a tremendous amount of credibility. Thanks for your efforts.
From: BC
You are doing an excellent service to the radio community! You are doing a super job, keep up the good work. You're a professional, and you handle yourself as such!
From: JG in North Dakota
I read and enjoyed your evaluation of the WinRadio. You did a very thorough evaluation, telling both the good and the bad about the rig. Your comments were well thought out and comprehensive, and, I think, very honest and unbiased.
From: MD
Just a note to let you know you've got a fantastic web site! The Strong Signals Resource Page and all of its attachments are far and away the best scanner-info site I have seen on the web. I have about 150 scanner sites bookmarked and yours is on the top of the list! I have recently purchased several new scanners, aided by the information I have found exclusively on your site (your reviews are tops - even better than [removed], in my opinion!). I also greatly appreciate the 'breaking news' page - which I now read as regularly as I do my e-mail. Keep up the good work!
From: JC in Utah
I've recently decided to invest in my first scanner and have found your site to be absolutely great! It's one of the most informative websites I've ever run across - lots of well-organized and timely info presented without annoying graphics. Thanks for your efforts.
From: RP in Massachusettes
Just thought I'd drop you a note and let you know how much I've enjoyed you reviews of the R10, AR8000, MVT-9000, and BC3000. I'm currently shopping for a new scanner and your reviews have assisted me tremendously in my choice.
From: RWM in Maryland
I love your reviews and web site. Your Strong Signals Resource page is set as my brower's startup page. Thank you for all the time you put into the hobby. You're well know and loved in Maryland!
From: CF in Canada
I love your web page. Hardly a day goes by that I'm not on there looking for info of some sort on various receivers.
From: CM in England
Last weekend I entered the world of scanning. I have to say that I found your pages informative and interesting - and enabled me to make a selection that I would otherwise would have struggled to do.
From: AN
Regarding your reviews on the net, I appreciate your expertise in this field and congratulate you on the efforts you have made to help other enthusiasts enjoy their monitoring.
From: CD
Thank you for the web site ( tipping hat ) I send newbies to it all the time.
From: JH
I first want to compliment you on your wonderful web site! What a wonderful resource for someone like me looking to test the scanning hobby.
From: LT
Great pages. Keep up the good work. It is really nice to see a professional interest in an area and a professional approach to a subject.
From: NB
Great web site! I check it almost daily.
From: JS
Just wanted to tell you what an excellent site you have. I just got my first scanner and I've been surfing for good scanner sites. Yours is by far the best I've found.
From: RL in Scotland
Just to say I found the page with the Yupiteru 9000 manual & have downloaded it to read offline. Did not realise there were so many areas on your site, but it is a first class site you have and will be letting other radio amateurs know of it here in Scotland.
From: FH in Texas
Yours is one site I go to each day just to see whats new or to review one of your excellent articles. Keep up the good work and pat yourself on the back
From: BS
Tremendous resource, Rich! Thanks for making it available.
From: SL
I would like to thank you for your comprehensive Radio Monitoring web site. As a newcomer to the hobby, I found it a wealth of information.
From: ADE
Thanks for making my introduction to monitoring an educational experience! You must certainly be the "patron saint" of monitoring!!!
From: Anonymous
THANKS! Thanks for putting together the best radio/scanner site I've seen in my two short years using the www. It's the most useful and fun site I've seen. Please keep up your good work!
From: MS
Your web site is a 10 in my book! Nicely done.
From: D
I'm sure you hear this alot, but your page is the BEST scanner page on the Internet. I freqently visited it before purchasing...and bought...primarily from the very detailed, awesome reviews on your site. Keep up the fantastic work!
From: FK
I just wanted to say thanks for providing such a complete reference on scanners. Your ratings and test notes are very informative.
From: LR in New Jersey
I have been reading your WebPages! You have the BEST site on the internet for scanners!!!! Must have taken lots of time to do this kind of detailed work!! GREAT JOB!
From: LS in California
My thanks in advance, Rich. You CLEARLY put a great deal into your enthusiasm with scanning. I appreciate all your work!
From: OC
Thanks for the information... You have a very informative neat sight...I learned a lot. Keep up the good work.
From: OM
I just want to say I think you have THE FINEST web site for scanning. Whenever I need a report on a scanner that I am interested in, I ALWAYS seek out your page. Its always up to date with the latest on scanner news. I really appreciate all your work.
From: RM
I really enjoy and appreciate your web page. It is a valuable resource for our hobby.
From: KO in Norway
That PRO-2035/OS535/Probe review is what I call a thorough and well composed report! Thank you very much for all the effort you put into creating easy to understand and excellent reports on all kinds of scanning and shortwave-related equipment!
From: JC in New Jersey
I just wanted to say that I found your site to be one of the most informative and well constructed of its kind that I have seen yet. Being new to the whole web experience I was very surprised at the amount of information I found here. Thanks and keep up the good work.
From: MC
Your site is AWESOME!!
From: AM in Massachusettes
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed looking at your scanner site today. You did an excellent job. I've been looking for a site like yours for some time, and was gladdened to find yours today.
From: Barry in England
Just thought I would drop you a short e-mail to say well done for an interesting and informative web site. As a beginner I will be using your site, once I have bought the scanner, to establish as much information as possible to enhance my knowledge as I have noticed that you have provided a number of interesting articles for beginners. Keep up the good work, it doesn't go unappreciated!
From: MK in Florida
Once again Rich, you're constantly giving back to our GREAT HOBBY and for that I have great respect and admiration for you and your cause.
From: RC
I have been a novice scanner user for a few years and purchased an AOR 1000XLT for use at motorsport events. Your site is the best source of scanner information I have found on the net, please keep up the fine work.
From: DD in Oregon
Just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for the great web site. Your site is the first one I read each morning on the Web. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
From: KH in Denmark
Just wanted to say that I loved the BC3000XLT review...
From: TM
Thank you. I find your site very helpful. Thanks to your review of the PRO-2041, I decided to purchase it at it's now great price. I am not disappointed and your review was right on.
From: JW
Nice job on the PRO-26 review. It is a pleasure to read such a clear, detailed, and unbiased review. It is obvious that you put a lot of time into it. Keep up the good work.
From: RM
You continue to amaze me with your witt and ability to reveiw new scanners quickly with an honest opinion we all can respect...
From: RF
My wife and I are thinking about getting into radio scanning a hobby we can do together and I'd just like to say that, as a newbie, your web page has some of the most useful and concise information that I've seen. Thanks!
From: JR
I have just spent the last "2+" hours going through your web site information and needless to say I am really impressed with the amount of information. I truly believe you have the best web site listed within the web for information. You have covered every classification from novice scanner listener to extra amateur radio information. I have been involved in radio communications from personnel to professional for the past 30+ yrs. in one sense or another and really have enjoyed my visit here. Please, keep up the GREAT work.
From: AG in England
Thank you for some of the most useful, and interesting pages I have seen on the net for a long time. I cannot thank you enough for the research you have done on these subjects. Long may you prosper! BRILLIANT!
From: KMM in California
I know that by now, this page is old hat to you but I want to thank you for the the First Impressions page you posted on the BC235XLT. Anyhow, don't wanna take up too much of your time, just thought you'd wanna know that someone is reading your efforts and that I certainly do appreciate it.
From: Anonymous
You obviously have gone through a lot of radios, and I just have to tell you that I for one am most grateful for the research that you have done. You have compiled an awesome amount of data and if only half of your information is worth absorbing than that means I'm at least fifty percent smarter than I was before reading it! And that is a conservative estimate. To me, your information is very much appreciated. If they ever make me King, you will most certainly be one of the first in line for a healthy research grant. Your information is indispensible.
From: DG in California
Thanks again for doing all the work it takes to keep your web page up to date. I appreciate it, and I think a lot of other people do too.
From: DM
As a newbie to the scanner world, I must say all of the info on the Web can be overwhelming. Too many techno terms (intermod, QSLing, DXing) so many models to choose from, TrunkTracking, "mods". . . I just want to thank you for your EXCELLENT site. It presents all the info you could need to start out in the scanning hobby. Based on your reviews and recommendations, the PRO-64 with an Austin Condor or Grove ANT-8 is soon to be ordered to replace my aging 10 channel RadShack Pro forty something. Thanks for the info and keep up the good work.
From: PK
I want to thank you again for the really great input. I have nothing but praise for people like you for taking the time helping people and giving your reviews and then having them decide for themselves.
From: BS
You do a great service to the scanner world. I take your reviews as gospel.
From: PF
The wealth of information you provide free of charge to the rest of us deserves our thanks. Only having participated in shortwave and scanning hobbies for about three years, I am still on the steep portion of the learning curve. I therefore find myself visiting your site frequently. I imagine a "newbie" to the hobby happening upon your web site. A veritable encyclopedic insight to the hows, whys, whats, and what nots of the scanning hobby, and a great guide to the equipment available (both new and used). I say then, kudos, and keep up the good work!
From: JV in Idaho
Just wanted to drop you a line, and say I think your reviews are some of the best! You are one of the most through and "down to earth" writers I have seen in the radio business in a long time...
From: RS in Arizona
Frankly, I don't know where you found the time to do everything you have already. You must be a very energetic, young person! Thanks again for your great homepage.
From: CM in Colorado
Thanks for the great job as always, Rich. After reading your review, I knew exactly what I needed to know about the radio[PRO-2050]. Keep up the good work - I know I can always rely on you to provide accurate, specific information.
From: RY in New York
I like your style...I like what you are putting on the net..it seems unbiased to me but expect the so called experts to jump your bones about not agreeing with someone as holy as they are.
From: MVN
I really spent a lot of time with your site. It is logical and well thought out. I know how much time it must take to build and maintain it. Your reviews are fine for me. I don't scrutinize radio specs trying to get each dB of gain or whatever. I compare to radios I may already know about or respect / dislike. Like many people I almost never get what I want, I get what I can at the time. What's available and affordable. Your reviews also show lots of work invested, and are easier to read than many. Thanks again for all your work, it shows.
From: KRK
I just purchased an R-10 for my Christmas present. A lot of my decision was based on the good work your doing giving others a preview of what the radio is like. So far, absolutely no surprises. Thanks for the good work.
From: NF in Denmark
Just wanna repeat my compliments, which I sent half a year ago... Ur pages r perfect...!!! Impresive work. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
From: Brian
Thanks again for creating and maintaining such an informative web page. Since I just got an unexpected gift of a Radio Shack PRO-2040 for the holidays (it's my first true scanner), I'm certain I will be making use of your site quite often.
From: PJ in Missouri
After reading your review in depth, I must say it appears you've surpassed anyone else's review of PROBE to date. Your review was both easy to read and extremely thorough. That's a tough balancing act with so much ground to cover. Both my gratitude and my compliments. Thanks again, Rich. I truly enjoyed your review. It was not only a nice dissertation on PROBE, but also a service to the scanning afficionado who looks for this kind of detailed information. All of your efforts are a credit to the hobby.
From: JP
Just wanted to send a big thank you for your web pages! I've read your posts to rec.radio.scanner while trying to decide if I want to get into the hobby. Keep up the good work! It's appreciated!
From: MJ
Yours is the most detailed, up-to-date webpage on scanner monitoring I can find. Your comprehensive reviews are helpful for beginners and advanced hobbyists alike. Keep up the good work!
From: MK in Florida
Isn't it "GREAT" that for every "one" unappreciative LOSER there are people like me, our group and many others that find your reviews "precisely" what we are looking. What I like is the users opinion, NOT a bunch of MUMBO JUMBO that does not mean diddley to me anyway. Thanks again for your tireless efforts to keep our hobby great. My hat's off to you.
From: BD in New Jersey
Again I want to thank you for you continuos updating your website... Your website has brought me many, many, many hours of enjoyable reading... Rich, allow me to say thanks for all your knowledge. I appreciate all your hours of hard work. Your reviews has helped me to become a more educated scanner enthusiast....
From: DMM
What you have been doing has encouraged others and is a positive help toward the scanning hobby. This is what we need more of. People who want to contribute to the hobby not to fill it with junk information. Keep up the great work!
From: NVK in California
I have found your web site to be among the best that I have ever seen, and your helpfullness to be sincere. Your reviews are unbiased and to the point. I have often used them (and told many others) to help me decide on a particular type of scanner. Yes, knowing the sensitvity and the selectivity is important but, they do not tell the whole picture and never will. I can get those specs and others from the manuf.. However what I can not get from the manuf. is how the unit works in the real world, not on a test bench. Most scanner enthusiasts that I know appreciate a no non-sense review like you offer and do not even understand what most specs stand for. They want to know, like myself, how the constuction of the radio is and what features it as as well as how it performs in actual usage. As a ham, I have good electronic knowledge and I consider your reviews to be among the best that I have seen. Your review on the Alinco DJX-10 was much better that even Pop Comms (in the Sep 97' issue), as it was much more informitive and useful.
From: RD
I've been on the web now since this past April and ever since I discovered your web page I go to it every day. I think your reviews are great! They give me the information I'm looking for not some techno-babble that few of us would understand. That is why your web page is popular. It is not glitzy or glamorus just down to earth. Anyhow Rich I hope that you found this letter interesting. I almost wrote it to the news group but decided to direct it to you instead because I appreciate and respect what you do for the scanning hobby.
From: JT
I've been reading your posts and visiting your web site as often as I can. I only got involved in scanning over the summer and find it very enjoyable and addicting. Thanks for all your hard work and your thoughtfulness for us beginners and people who want to get started in an enjoyable hobby.
From: JTW in Ohio
I've done my share of below 30 & have just gotten into UHF/VHF in the last few years. Your very thorough, well written articles have been the most helpful learning aid for me in all of Scanning. Your honesty & true feeling bleed through each & every article. This one was very special. You've "outdone" your normal excellent work this time!

I am not a writer so much as I used to be. But, there are efforts that I see from time to time that have such a great impact on me that write I must! November's BC895XLT is no more, no less than the absolute best hobby article & equipment review I've seen in a long while & I read each & every one!

Even though I now use a very good AOR AR 5000+3, your article may very well move me to purchase that particular scanner! I just want you to know that there are a lot of us hobbyists that benefit from your very detailed hard work We hobbyists need to more often provide enough encouragement to the volunteers such as yourself for the "giving of so much of Yourself' for our good. I'm trying to do some of that now, it is deserved!

I mean that very much & felt compelled by the obvious hard work that you dedicated for that article, and all of your other ones also. This is just a very brite star in your constellation of good work! "Your work does count"! It also makes a big difference". I just wanted to convey my thoughts to you, they are all honest & appropriate.

May you keep up your enthusiasm, your work I do not worry about. I'd bet you are the same hard working "private life person" also. Don't let any of our nit-pickers get to you, they can't on this one! We regular folks need you & appreciate you! (don't be surprised to hear that I did buy that new Uniden! I am going to send a copy of your article to Uniden!)

From: RE
Rich, I'm fairly new to the scanner newsgroups, but one thing was obvious to me from day one. When a newbie like myself posts a question that has been asked a hundred times, a very patient and thorough reply can be expected from yourself. On the other had, one can expect to made a fool of by some of the other regular posters in the group. You know who I'm talking about. Rather than flame and trade insults with these people, I choose to personally thank those who respond intelligently. That is the purpose of this letter, a chance to personally say "Thanks" for the information and respect you provide.
From: JW in Kansas
I really enjoy the information that Rich has provided to myself and other scannists. He provides us with great comparisons and reviews. I'm not able to go out and buy all the scanners that he has...but if I need an answer about a scanner, I turn to his webpage first. He's right on the money with the facts and a great honest opinion for using the scanner in real world applications.
From: MK in Florida
As far as I am concerned Rich is the "Number One" authority when it comes to our great hobby and it's equipment. Thanks for all those great and TIMELY reviews. I am sure many newbies to the hobby find Rich's site of great value to getting started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanxxxxxx
From: BP in North Carolina
I especially enjoy reading Rich's timely and thoughtful product reviews. Thanks again, Rich.
From: DT
I'd like to thank Rich Wells for his dedication to the advancement of Radio Monitoring. I consider him the foremost expert in the subject and would like to acknowledge the endless amount of information and assistance he has provide for the rest of us. Again, Rich thanks for all the help and keep up the good work!!!
From: JD
Just wanted to send you a thank you for all the scanner information you've posted on your web page and in the newsgroups -- excellent job! Very informative.
From: DM
Thanks for your _excellent_ page on portable antenna reviews. The tests are great, cover all the various important ranges, and you tested all the popular brands. Thanks again, must have been a ton of work, but it is the best reference I've seen.
From: MM
Hi Rich. I just want to thank you for the terrific info you provided on your web page and scanner reviews. I've been thinking about a wideband receiver for a while and decided to get one for Xmas. Your review info helped me immensely.
From: MP in Florida
I just wanted to say thanks for putting together an exceptional resource. As an experienced news reporter, I can only guess at the amount of effort that went into your series of highly relevant pages regarding radio scanners. I have been bumping around on the web on and off for a few weeks looking for dealers and so on. The amount of information I was able to obtain in one sitting from your site has outweighed everything else put together.
From: PC
Thank you for helping me decide on which communications receiver to get. It's amazing how much I have matured and grown wise just from reading your website constantly and your e-mails. I used to be so naive and thought that one handheld receiver really could do it all, but now I now that is not true.
From: DM
I came to your site as a newbie looking for direction towards my first scanner purchase. After having spent several hours surfing your site over the past few days, I felt compelled to write. I have visited hundreds of web sites over the years and have created a dozen or so myself; but I have _never_ seen a site as informative and well put together as yours. The content is rich and relevant -- no unneccessary graphics or scripting just for the sake of scripting -- and every facet of the hobby is covered in depth. In short, I am guaranteed to make an intelligent purchase thanks to your excellent resource. Thank You Very Much!!!!
From: GW in Ohio
First of all I want to thank you for all the work you have done on your home page. Your in depth evaluations are excellent. I really enjoyed your evaluation on the Yupi 9000. You are the current expert on scanners.
From: VW in Texas
I just wanted to let you know what a great job you have done on the 895 review. Being a Reserve Deputy for the Sheriff's Department, I live and work in the same area and like to keep abreast of the activities in our area. I am really excited about the 895, and was pleased to hear that someone has put together a scanner that consumers have been dreaming about for some time now. Once again, thanks for the great job on the review from a neutral party and a fellow amateur.
From: RE in North Carolina
I just found your home page and all of your great scanner related materials. I'm with the State Bureau of Investigation (NC SBI) and have always been stationed in [removed]. Thanks for all of your help and keep up the good work.
From: Kevin
I just want to send you a little thank you for all the info you give for free at your website. I didn't know a thing about scanners, but after reading your tips, faqs, and reviews, I feel I can make a intellegent choice on what to buy. THANK YOU!
From: Tim
I just wanted to say this is an incredibly well done website. If anybody has a question about scanners the answer must be here somewhere. It's very rare to see a private site done with so much work and preparation(hell any site). You ought to be commended for your work. You are hereby knighted to "SIR N2MCA"
From: RM
I want to thank you for the information you published regarding this receiver [AR8000] as well as others like the Alinco X-10. You certainly influenced my buying decision with your comments and I find out that we have many common points of view when evaluating a piece of equipment like this. Many thanks again.
From: JW in Kansas
I know that people might have pointed their browsers in the direction of Rich Wells' homepage...but if you haven't you should. You can find his report on the BC895XLT there. Rich has done a very good job of producing quality reports on various scanners. The kind of reports that you usually have to pay for! I don't have the collection of scanners that Rich does...but if I happen to pick up a scanner that he has done a review on, he is very much on the money with everything. Great job once again Rich...I certainly appreciate you taking your time to bring us very in-depth information!
From: JR in Florida
Your new home page with all the info about various models is excellent. You are to be commended, both for content, value of the information, and the presentation. I think you must be a special kind of person for being so willing to share your knowledge!
From: PJ in Missouri
First I'd like to send a sincere compliment your way on your radio monitoring page. Having looked at quite a few, yours is not only well organized, but it's interesting. Especially enjoyed your method for rating scanners.
From: RB
I just want to congratulate you on your outstanding review of the BC-895! I'm not just saying that as I had a hand in its development -and I'm very proud of the work that went into that unit- but also because of the very thorough job you did of analyzing the product. You pointed out legitimate faults in the owner's manual (I sent your comments on to Uniden Publications) and your suggestions, minor though they were, for improvement (in the squelch tail, for instance) were honest and helpful. Would you mind if we linked to your page from our web sites? Thanks again for such a great, in-depth review.
From: JW in Kansas
I did read through your 'impressions' several times trying to learn as much as I can about the scanner. I really think that you have done an EXCELLENT job in all that you have done. The only thing that I think that you are doing wrong is the fact that you are not getting paid for it. I think that you have do a much better job than many writers out there and I know that it is an 'honest to goodness' report. You are doing wonders for the hobby of scanning. Keep up the work!
From: Ami in Italy
Hey Rich. I must tell you how much I (and many others) admire you contribution to the scanner community. Keep up the good work!
From: MB in North Carolina
Let me start by saying I have really enjoyed your scanner web sites! I am a police officer in [removed] NC, as with many other small town depts I rely on a scanner to keep up with what is going on around me.
From: BL in Canada
I've spent quite a bit of time looking around your site in the past few days. You've got a wealth of imformation here to be sure! I'm the editor of a scanning column here in [removed] Canada for a monthly publication. As we don't have access to the incredible variety of products you have there in the U.S., I wonder if you'd mind if I used some of your reviews and comments on the latest and greatest radios your personally tried out in the column from time to time?
From: GG in Canada
I've recently come across your site. I was quite interested in your scanner reviews. These scanner reviews are very well written and the most comprehensive I have ever seen on the net. With your permission I would like to add your reviews to our scanner section. I think your reviews would be valuable for customers considering buying a scanner they would like to purchase.
From: DDH in Texas
Thanks to otustanding people like you who write excelllent reviews, at least you know what to expect. You run a great page and a great service. Thanks for helping so many people.
From: SD
I would just like to take a moment to personally thank you for the work you have put into your scanner web pages. I have studied most of them to help with my decision to buy a BC3000XLT and now am reading the antenna review. Please keep up the good work!
From: SR in Illinois
Thanks for the work you did in rating scanner antenna's. I needed an antenna for a certain frequency range, what you presented was exactly what I needed. I am going to buy the antenna today. Again, thank you very much!!
From: JT
Very nice post [New Scanner Users FAQ] Rich. Thanks for doing this as I was about to give up on this newgroup (again).
From: BS in Texas
Nice work on your radio reviews. I thought my 10 or so scanners was a lot! Thanks for the great pages!
From: BB in Florida
Just let me start by saying Thank You. Being new to this very addictive hobby of scanning, I find your site as well as your comments in newgroups, to be the most informative around. I only bought my first scanner, a Pro-60 about a month ago, and have learned more by reading your web site then any other I have visited. You seem to be the Guru of scanning. Since reading your first impressions of the BC235XLT, I have decided to buy one as soon as I can. Once angain thanks for doing such a great job, and keep up the good work.
From: JC
If you are looking for an antenna for your scanner look here FIRST! This is great stuff!
From: ST
I just wanted to say thanks for your Strong Signal Resource Page. I'm brand new into scanning (I don't even own one yet) and your WWW page has been a great resource. I read your "Getting Started in Radio Monitoring" and have been trying to decide which scanner to get by looking at your Scanner Model FAQ. So, thank you very much!
From: MK in Florida
Hey Rich, thank you very much for all the help you give, especially to the NEWBIES. I love your page. I learn something new everytime I go there.
From: PH
Very nice Web site. Visited this AM and had a great time.
From: RPR in Maryland
Great job! Loved reading it[WS1000 review], read it twice! It is nice to get another person's views. It was a very unbias report - just facts. Thanks again. Looking forward to more writeups :)
From: JL
I wanted to take time to tell you that your web page is the best I have seen on the net. You put relevant information on your pages about the hobby that many can use. I have yet to see a page that is better than yours. Keep up the good work!
From: JK
I would like to thank you for your time that you put in. It is really hard to find information on the net today that is useful, but you are making it easier for others to get information about what they really need to know.
From: MS
Your RTP [frequency] list is superb!
From: JD in Virginia
I just read your handheld scanner antenna review last night . . . it was spectacular! You spent a lot of time collecting, analyzing, and reporting the data; this shows how much you enjoy your hobby, as well as how much you care for your fellow hobbyists.
From: FK in Wisconsin
Many thanks for this comprehensive test and posting it - you have upgraded the level of this Usenet group - at last - useful information!
From: SU in Maryland
Wow! Rich's R10 review is thorough and comprehensive. Excellent piece of work. Deserves to be published. Should be read by anyone with an interest in the R10.
From: DS
I really enjoyed your post on the 2045, I think your review was better than [writer removed] in [magazine removed]. I believe you gave the 2045 a better review than he did. I also thought the frequency comparision between the 2045 and 9000 was very good, I've never seen that done before and it should be done more often.
From: PL in Hawaii
Great comments on the 7100. You must be America's most knowledgeable scanner user.

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